2003 particle accelerator conference

2003 PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE

May 12-16 Portland Oregon

The 2003 Particle Accelerator Conference(PAC2003) will take place on May 12-16, 2003,at the Hilton Portland in Portland, Oregon. The

conference will cover new developments in all aspectsof the science, technology, and the use of accelerators. Itwill also provide a communication channel for acceler-ator scientists and engineers and for those interested inthe applications of accelerators. The conference is opento the public and all individuals with an interest in par-ticle accelerators are invited to register and attend.

This is the 20th biennial conference in the seriesand is organized under the joint auspices of the Insti-tute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)through its Nuclear and Plasma Science Society(NPSS) and the American Physical Society (APS)through its Division of Physics of Beams (DPB).The conference also serves as the annual meeting ofthe DPB. The hosting institutions are Stanford Lin-ear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Lawrence Berke-ley National Laboratory (LBNL). The conference issupported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy,the National Science Foundation and the Office ofNaval Research. Industrial sponsors include BergozInstrumentation, Danfysik, GMW Associates, andWah Chang, an Allegheny Technologies Company.

The Conference Chairman is Robert. H. Siemann ofSLAC. The PAC2003 Program Committee, chaired byEd Lee of LBNL, has al-ready structured the confer-ence program. Program,publication instructions andall other relevant informa-tion is available on the con-ference website at http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/PAC03/. Additional in-formation can be obtainedfrom the Conference Coor-dinator:

Maura Chatwell,PAC03 Conference CoordinatorStanford Linear Accelerator Center2575 Sand Hill RoadMail Stop 58Menlo Park, California, 94025 USATelephone: +1 650 926-4931Fax: +1 650 926-4962,E-mail: [email protected]

The deadline for abstract submission has passed.The Proceedings, which are being edited by JoeChew, will be published as an IEEE Conference Re-cord and will be available in hardcopy or as a CD. Allabstract and paper submission should be through theWeb upload system, however, authors are also re-quired to bring a hardcopy to the conference.

To register for PAC2003, please complete the onlineregistration form at the website. The registration fee ofU.S. $450.00 ($350.00 for those who register and paybefore April 10, 2003) supports the conference almostentirely. This fee covers participation in the conferencesessions, the welcome reception, the awards ceremonyand coffee breaks. It also includes a copy of the Pro-ceedings of the conference in CD form. Student and re-tiree registration is $100. The registration fee does not

cover the banquet. Com-panion tours will be avail-able; a companion-tourregistration form can beobtained from the web site.

Technical ProgramThe organization of thetechnical program is simi-lar to previous conferencesin this series with plenary

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2003 Particle Accelerator Conference . . . . . 1Invitation to Icops 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . 42003 NSREC in Monterey, California . . . . . 5Plans Announced for the 20th Symposium onFusion Engineering (SOFE) . . . . . . . . . . 72003 Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems(SNPS) Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Report on the 2002 IEEE Nuclear ScienceSymposium and Medical Imaging Conference . 8President's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Secretary’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10CLASS OF 2006The Newly Elected Ad Com Members . . . . 14Division IV Director’s Report . . . . . . . . . 16Nuclear Medical And Imaging SciencesTechnical Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Call for Nominations For New Members of theIEEE NPSS Nuclear And Medical ImagingSciences Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Inside The Radiation Effects Steering Group . . 20New RESG Member-At-Large . . . . . . . . 212002 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Con-ference Outstanding Conference Paper Awards 21Radiation Effects Award . . . . . . . . . . 22RITC Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Report from the Communications Committee. . 23Annual Review of the TNS Editorial Process . . 24NPSS Award Nominations Due May 15 . . . 272002 NPSS Merit Award . . . . . . . . . 282002 Richard F. Shea Award . . . . . . . . 292002 Early Achievement Award . . . . . . . 31Graduate Student Awards . . . . . . . . . 312002 Medical Imaging Scientist Award . . . 322003 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award . . . 33IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee . . . . . . 35The Senate Energy Bill Circa 2002 . . . . . 35Bill Would Use R&D Funding to PromoteMetric Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38DOE Plan Calls for Fusion-Generated Electricityin 35 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38National Academy Heads Question Visa Restrictionson Foreign Scientists and Engineers . . . . . 39Strengthening Ties Between the Media and theEngineering Community . . . . . . . . . . 39

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sessions on Monday morning and Friday after-noon. The opening plenary session will featuretalks by S. Mishra, FNAL on High LuminosityOperation of the Tevatron, P.W. Schmor,TRIUMF on Recently Commissioned and Fu-ture Radioactive Ion Beam Facilities, N.Holtkamp, ORNL on Status of the SpallationNeutron Source and G. Dugan, Cornell onTechnology Options for Linear Colliders. Theclosing plenary session talks will include R.Orbach, DOE on Prospects for a Physical Sci-ence Renaissance, D. Prosnitz, LLNL on Rolesfor Accelerator Technology in Homeland Secu-rity, C.V. Shank, LBNL on Opportunities forAccelerators in Nanoscience and Y. Petroff,ESRF on Evolution of Light Sources.

During the five-day period there will be 21oral sessions with 81 invited speakers and se-lected contributed papers. Eight poster ses-sions sized to accommodate more than 1000posters are scheduled. Accelerator systems arecategorized by sessions on Low & MediumEnergy Accelerators, Hadron Accelerators andColliders, Lepton Accelerators and Colliders,Linear Colliders, Light Sources, FELs andERLs, Secondary Beam Factories, AdvancedConcepts and Extreme Beams. Sessions onSingle Particle Beam Dynamics and Optics,Multi-Particle Beam Dynamics, Two-StreamInteractions and Collective Processes, and In-stabilities and Feedback have been assigned. Inaddition there are specific sessions on Sourcesand Injectors, Magnets, Controls and Comput-ing, Instrumentation, Radio Frequency Sys-tems, Accelerator Technology, Pulsed Powerand High Intensity Beams, and the Applica-tions of Accelerators.

Industrial ExhibitionAn industrial exhibition of about 40 booths,situated adjacent to the poster area, wherecompanies can advertise their products and ex-pertise, will be open from noon to 5:00 p.m.on Monday and 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. onTuesday and Wednesday. The cost of a 10 footby 10 foot booth is $2000.00 (U.S.). This feeincludes one full conference registration, a CDcopy of the proceedings and attendance at thereception. An online registration form is avail-able on the conference website. Sponsorshipopportunities for the reception, refreshments

and supplies are also available to organizations.These are listed on the website and will be fullyacknowledged at the conference and in theconference program. Further information onexhibiting or sponsorship can be obtained bycontacting Adrienne Higashi at [email protected]

AccommodationsApproximately 1200 participants have at-tended the last few meetings in the series andsimilar numbers are anticipated for PAC2003in Portland. A block of rooms at the PortlandHilton has been reserved at the conference rateof $139.00/night, single or double occupancy.Due to the limited availability of rooms, atten-dees are strongly urged to reserve early, directlywith the hotel. When making reservations, besure to indicate attendance at PAC2003 in or-der to receive the conference room rate.

Companion ProgramThe conference has arranged a companion pro-gram. This begins on Monday morning with aCompanion Get Acquainted Reception at thePortland Hilton that will include a continentalbreakfast. Prearranged tours depart Mondaythrough Saturday mornings, returning late af-ternoon, and include specially selected lunchstops. They are being offered through “RAZ”,a private company. In daily order, the six toursand their costs are: Portland City Tour($59.00), Columbia Gorge Tour ($55.00),Oregon Garden and Aurora ($55.00), NorthCoast Tour ($60.00), Woodburn ShoppingTour ($33.00), Columbia Gorge Tour($55.00). If planning on joining any of thesetours, please print and complete the PAC03Companion Tour Registration Form and sub-mit directly to RAZ before the April 28, 2003deadline.

Other InformationThe conference banquet will be held at 7 PMon Thursday, May 15, 2003. Banquet ticketswill cost $70.00 and reservations are requiredsince seating is limited.

The Awards Reception and Ceremony willbe held on Wednesday, May 14 at 4 PM to pres-ent the following 2003 awards and prizes:


CONFERENCES (cont’d)

Quark-like

The chains ofhabit are tooweak to be feltuntil they are toostrong to bebroken.

Samuel Johnson

No sale

Wisdom is likegold; it is uselessif no one willaccept it fromyou.

Geoffrey Pyke

APS Robert R. Wilson PrizeAPS Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis

Research in Beam PhysicsStudent Travel Awards Honoring

Lou Costrell and Mel MonthParticle Accelerator Science & Technology Awards

U.S. Particle Accelerator School Prize forAchievement in Accelerator Physics & Technology

Newly Elected Fellows of the APSNewly Elected Fellows of the IEEE

Conference attendees will have access toInternet-connected computers and printers

plus network connections for laptop comput-ers. This facility allows uploading and manage-ment of manuscripts as well as reading andsending of e-mail and other miscellaneous per-sonal computing tasks. Ethernet is also avail-able in guest rooms at the Hilton Portland.

Historical weather data show that in Port-land in mid-May we can expect lows in the mid40s and highs in the mid 60s F (8-18 C) with achance for rain. See for instance www.pova.com/visitors/weather.html

We look forward to seeing you in Portlandin May!

INVITATION TO ICOPS 2003

June 2-5 Jeju Island, Korea

The 30th IEEE International Conferenceon Plasma Science (ICOPS 2003) willbe held during June 2-5, 2003 on Jeju Is-

land (“Hawaii of Asia”) in Korea. It is spon-sored by IEEE NPSS Plasma Science andApplications Committee.

ICOPS conferences have been challengingand nourishing events for the advancement ofPlasma Science and Technology for the past 30years. For the first time in its history, ICOPS isgoing to be held in Korea outside North Amer-ica (USA & Canada). Although it happens tobe hosted by Korea, other Asian countries, es-pecially Japan and China, will take advantageof the opportunity to show Western countriesthe strength of their research activities in the ar-eas of Plasma Science and Technology. Twomajor plasma societies, one from Korea (KoreaAccelerator and Plasma Research Association)and the other from Japan (Japan Society ofPlasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research)are co-sponsoring this conference along withother institutions such as Hanyang Universityand Korea Vacuum Society. Historically, theKorean peninsula has been a strategic placelinking the Asian continent (China, Russia,etc) to the Pacific Ocean countries (Japan,USA, etc). This time Korea will be a nourish-ing place where the Western and Easternplasma scientists and engineers can have realcommunication and collaboration in the areaof Plasma Science and Technology. ICOPS2003 will also be a constructive and amusingscientific fellowship on an exotic island!

ICOPS 2003 will emphasize both the tradi-tional fields of plasma science and the emerg-

ing fields through plenary talks and the regularconference program. Reports on the currentstate of fusion and flat panel display will also bepresented. This conference will cover the fol-lowing areas:

• Basic Processes in Fully and Partially Ion-ized Plasmas

• Microwave Generation and MicrowavePlasma Interaction

• Charged Particle Beams and Sources• High Energy Density Plasmas and Their

Applications• Commercial/Industrial Applications of

Plasmas• Fusion• Pulsed Power.A special mini-course on Plasma Diagnos-

tics will be offered June 5-6. Abstracts of all pa-pers will appear in the Conference Record.Plenary and invited papers will be published inthe February 2004 special issue of the Transac-tions on Plasma Science. Selected oral contribu-tions will be considered for publication in anadditional special issue of the Transactions onPlasma Science scheduled for April 2004.

Jeju Island is one of the most fantastic re-sorts in Korea and it is one hour’s flight southof Seoul. The 649 sq. mile island has many ex-tinct volcanoes, sparkling beaches and fishingvillages. It is located in a semi-tropical belt.There 1700 different kinds of plants, fromsemi-tropical to frigid zone species, flourish innature with a temperature range from 22° to26° Celsius (72° to 80° Fahrenheit). There aremany sights and activities that will interest and


Kyu-Sun Chung

ICOPS 2003 Chairman

Cause and effect

In general a manowes his successto his first wife,and his secondwife to hissuccess.

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entertain people of all ages. An official excur-sion is planned for Tuesday afternoon.

You can get more information about thisConference at http://www.ieee.org/icops2003 orat http://ahpe.hanyang.ac.kr/~icops2003. Gen-

eral inquiries regarding ICOPS 2003 can be sentto the Conference Coordinator, Ms. Hye-JeongKim at icops2003@ahpe. hanyang. ac.kr, or theConference Chair, Professor Kyu-Sun Chung atkschung@hanyang. ac.kr.

2003 NSREC IN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA

The 2003 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radia-tion Effects Conference will be held July21-25, 2003 in Monterey, California at

the Doubletree Hotel. The conference features aTechnical Program consisting of ten sessions ofcontributed papers that describe the latest ob-servations and research results in radiation ef-fects, a Short Course focusing on how devicescaling impacts radiation effects in space thatwill be presented on July 21, a Radiation EffectsData Workshop, and an Industrial Exhibit. TheTechnical Program includes oral and poster ses-sions. There will also be special events for com-panions in a parallel social program.

This is the 40th year in which the NSREChas been held. A special publication will bemade available to attendees that describes themajor technical accomplishments associatedwith work presented at the Conference over itsforty-year history.

Supporters of the conference include theDefense Threat Reduction Agency, Sandia Na-tional Laboratories, Air Force Research Labo-ratory, and the NASA Electronic Parts andPackaging Program.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Papers to be presented at this meeting will de-scribe the effects of space or nuclear radiationon electronic or photonic devices, circuits, sen-sors, materials and systems, as well as semicon-ductor processing technology and techniquesfor producing radiation-tolerant devices andintegrated circuits. A new session has beenadded this year on terrestrial radiation effectsthat is becoming an important problem forsemiconductor manufacturers for highly scaleddevices. The conference will be attended by en-gineers, scientists and managers who are con-cerned with radiation effects. Internationalparticipation in the conference is strongly en-couraged.

Specific topics for technical papers that willbe presented at this conference include the fol-lowing:

Basic Mechanisms of Radiation Effects

in Electronic Materials and Devices

• Ionizing radiation effects• Displacement damage effects• Radiation effects on materials• Single-event charge collection

phenomena and mechanisms• Processing-induced radiation effects• Radiation transport, energy deposition

and dosimetry

Radiation Effects on Electronic and

Photonic Devices and Circuits

• MOS, bipolar and advanced technologies• SOI and SOS technologies• Optoelectronic and optical devices, and

optical systems• Novel devices structures, such as MEMS• Single-event effects• Modeling of devices, circuits and systems• Methods for hardened design and manu-

facturing• Radiation effects at cryogenic temperatures• Particle detectors and associated elec-

tronics at high-energy accelerators

Space, Atmospheric and Terrestrial

Radiation Effects

• Characterization and modeling of radia-tion environments

• Space weather effects• Spacecraft charging

Hardness Assurance Technology and

Radiation Testing

• Testing techniques and guidelines• Hardness assurance methodology

Radiation Effects on Commercial Space

Systems

New Developments of Interest to the

Radiation Effects Community

RADIATION EFFECTS DATA

WORKSHOPThe Radiation Effects Data Workshop is a fo-rum for papers on radiation effects data on


Moveable assets

The only way Iknow to transfertechnology iswith people.

Chuck Geschke

electronic devices and systems. Workshop pa-pers are intended to provide radiation responsedata to scientists and engineers who use elec-tronic devices in a radiation environment, andfor designers of radiation-hardened or radia-tion-tolerant systems. Papers describing newsimulation facilities are also welcomed.

PAPER SUBMITTALInformation on the submission of summariesto the 2003 NSREC for either the TechnicalSessions or the Data Workshop can be found atwww. nsrec.com. The deadline for submittingsummaries was February 7, 2003, and final se-lection of papers will be made in March. A lim-ited number of late-news papers will beconsidered for the conference, but must besubmitted by May 30. Late-news papers mustclearly show why they are newsworthy, as wellas technically significant.

Papers accepted for the conference are eligi-ble for publication in the December issue of theIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, subjectto an additional review cycle after the confer-ence. Papers presented at the Workshop will bepublished in a special IEEE publication follow-ing the conference that is not subject to an ad-ditional peer review.

SHORT COURSEAttendees will have the opportunity to partici-pate in a one-day Short Course on Monday, July21. The short course will focus on how scalingand technical advances in microelectronics affecttheir use in space. It will consist of four tutorialpresentations that begin with basic material anddevelop a thorough understanding of how ad-vanced microelectronics are affected by space ra-diation, as well as ways to select advancedmicroelectronics for space applications.

The first session of the 2003 Short Coursewill be presented by Dr. Ron LaCoe, Aero-space Corporation. It will discuss device scal-ing and design principles for CMOStechnology. It will also include a discussion ofhardened-by-design methodologies, as well asradiation effects in advanced isolation struc-tures, such as shallow trench isolation.

The second session, presented by Dr.Alessandro Paccangella of the Universita diPadova, will discuss radiation effects on thinoxides. The session will begin with a discussionof trends and design requirements for oxides inadvanced CMOS devices. Radiation effects willinclude leakage current from ionizing radia-

tion, and microdose damage from protons andheavy ions, which is an important problem foradvanced memory devices.

Session three will concentrate on the way inwhich device scaling affects single-event upsetsensitivity. It will be presented by Dr. TimothyOldham, NASA GSFC. This is one of the mostimportant topics for advanced devices becausethe critical charge required for single-event up-set continues to decrease as devices evolve.New results for silicon-on-insulator technol-ogy will be included as part of this session.

The fourth session will be presented by Dr.John Cressler, Georgia Tech University. He willdiscuss radiation effects in advanced bipolar de-vices, including those made with silicon-germa-nium technology. Advanced bipolar devices arefabricated very differently from conventionaltransistors, using heterojunctions to increaseperformance and allow device dimensions to bereduced to the submicron level.

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITAn Industrial Exhibit will be included as partof the Conference. The exhibit will be held onTuesday and Wednesday. It will include exhibitsfrom 35-40 exhibitors who represent compa-nies or agencies involved in manufacturingelectronic devices or systems for applications inspace or nuclear environments, modeling andanalysis of radiation effects at the device andsystem level, and radiation testing.

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTSThe main social event for the Conference willbe a banquet, scheduled for Wednesday eve-ning at the Monterey Aquarium. It will beopen to attendees and their immediate fami-lies. The aquarium will be reserved exclusivelyfor the conference during the evening, allow-ing attendees and family members the oppor-tunity to see this world-famous facility in arelaxed atmosphere.

Companion events will include a lun-cheon/shopping trip to nearby Carmel onTuesday, and a tour of a local winery and lun-cheon in a nearby restaurant on Thursday.

MONTEREYThe picturesque city of Monterey is located onMonterey Bay, approximately 120 miles southof San Francisco. It is the site of the renownedMonterey Aquarium as well as the location ofCannery Row, made famous by the novelist


Waves ofromance

If it is love thatmakes the worldgo round, it isself-induction thatmakeselectromagneticwaves go roundthe world.

Oliver Heaviside

Consistency

Fault has beenfound with thesearticles that theyare hard to read.They were,perhaps, hard towrite.

Oliver Heaviside

John Steinbeck. The nearby 17-mile drive con-tains some of the most beautiful scenery in theUnited States and was photographed by AnselAdams during the 1940s. Sea lions, seals andotters abound in Monterey Bay. Beaches, hik-ing, historical sites, kayaking, sailing, golf, andnearby wineries in the Carmel Valley areamong the many attractions in this unique site.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Chair: Allan JohnstonJet Propulsion Laboratory, (818) 354-6425

Technical Program: Paul DoddSandia National Laboratories, (505) 844-1447

Local Arrangements: Mark HopkinsAerospace Corporation, (515) 872-6201

Short Course: Joe BenedettoAeroflex UTMC, (719) 594-8415

Publicity: Teresa FarrisAeroflex UTMC, (719) 594-8035

Finance: Kay JobeBoeing Satellite Systems, (310) 416-3705

Awards: Gordon HopkinsonSira Electro-Optics, Ltd. (UK),(44) 20-8467-2636

Industrial Exhibits: Howard BogrowXilinx Inc., (623) 376-8692

Guest Editor: Jim KinnisonJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory,(240) 228-6169

Teresa Farris, the NSREC Publicity Chair, canbe reached at Aeroflex UTMC, 4350 CentennialBlvd., Colordo Springs, CO 80907-3486; Phone:+1 719 594-8035; Fax: +1 719 594-8468;E-mail: [email protected]

Plans Announced for the20th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE)

Richard Callis, Chairman of the 20th

SOFE, released a Pre-announcement ofthe Symposium in an e-mail to prospec-

tive attendees on January 8. The Symposium isa biennial event dedicated to the scientific,technological and engineering issues of fusionenergy research and is a mixture of oral presen-tations and poster sessions. It will be held inSan Diego, California at the Bahia Resort Ho-

tel in Mission Bay from October 14-17, 2003.Abstracts are requested by April 30. Abstractsubmittal instructions and general informationcan be found at the Symposium’s website: http://d3dnff.gat.com/sofe03/. The 20thSOFE is sponsored by IEEE/NPSS and is sup-ported by the DIII-D National Fusion facilityand General Atomics.

2003 Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems(SNPS) Call for Papers

Portland, Oregon, October 21–23, 2003

The 2003 Symposium on Nuclear PowerSystems (SNPS) will again be held inconjunction with the Nuclear Science

Symposium and Medical Imaging Confer-ence. The Technical paper sessions on nuclearpower systems cover subjects currently of ma-jor interest to the operation of nuclear powerstations and supporting services and suppli-ers, including:

• Upgrading digital technology for reactorprotection, I&C, and other systems

• Reliability-based maintenance and plantmodernization

• New aspects on equipment qualifications• A special annual overview report of ma-

jor importance to nuclear power utilities• A panel session of major importance to

operating NPGS• And morePlease send an abstract (11.5 x 10 cm block)

and a summary of maximum two pages by May15, 2003 to Jay Forster, SNPS Program Chair-man,GE Nuclear Energy, M/C 334, 175 CurtnerAve., San Jose, CA 95125: Phone: +1 408925-5090; Fax: +1 408 925-2923; [email protected]


Protocol

It is not enoughto be wrong, onemust also bepolite.

Niels Bohr

Too, too right!

I have not beenafraid of excess:excess onoccasion isexhilarating. Itpreventsmoderation fromacquiring thedeadening effectof habit.

W. SomersetMaugham

Report on the 2002 IEEE Nuclear ScienceSymposium and Medical Imaging Conference

The 2002 IEEE NSS/MIC was held in Nor-folk, Virginia at the Marriott WatersideConvention Center from Sunday, Novem-

ber 10 to Saturday, November 16. As with prioryears, the NSS/MIC meeting was complimentedby a Short Course program from November10-12 and the Symposium on Nuclear PowerSystems (SNPS) from November 12-13. In addi-tion, we helped organize an outreach program forscience teachers at Jefferson Laboratory on No-vember 11, and helped to coordinate a workshopon Nuclear Radiology of Breast Cancer immedi-ately following MIC, on November 16 & 17.

By all measures the meeting was a success.The NSS/MIC conference is one of the mostproductive international scientific meetings inthe fields of nuclear and particle physics, and thephysics of nuclear medicine. It is particularly suc-cessful, and unique in the manner in which itcombines these areas of research, due to the syn-ergism between applied nuclear physics andmedical imaging. This year’s success can certainlybe attributed to the excellent organization andhard work by the scientific chairs, includingNigel Lockyer and Rick Van Berg for NSS, PaulKinahan and Robert Miyaoka for MIC, and JayForster for SNPS. Approximately 850 scientistsregistered for the meeting, of which 20% werestudents. There were 525 presentations duringthe meeting, including those at NSS, MIC, andSNPS, and including the invited presentations atthe plenary sessions. There was an increased em-phasis on poster presentations, in fact, 365 of thepresentations were posters, which were availablefrom Tuesday afternoon through Saturday morn-ing. This format permitted more time for theposters to be displayed, and encouragedcross-fertilization between NSS and MIC. Wealso held joint oral NSS/MIC sessions on bothTuesday and Wednesday. The joint session onWednesday included invited talks on proton ther-apy and imaging and was particularly well re-ceived. It was run immediately following theplenary MIC session, with no competing parallelsessions so as to encourage participation from allNSS and MIC attendees. The Short Course Pro-gram had close to 350 participants, with espe-cially high attendance by students and post-docs.The high attendance is partly due to the dis-counts that were offered to these young scien-tists, and certainly due to the excellent

organization by Gary Alley who has served asShort Course chair since 1994. The exhibitorprogram ran from November 12-14 and wassuccessful with 43 companies exhibiting theirproducts. Several non-profit organizations alsoexhibited.

We should congratulate the more than 30 stu-dents who received awards of up to $500 to helpdefray the cost of the meeting and encouragetheir participation. These awards were made pos-sible by the generous support of several compa-nies, as well as the conference itself. Thecompanies who helped to sponsor these awardsincluded Concorde Microsystems, CPS Innova-tions, CTI Molecular Imaging, GE Medical Sys-tems, Hamamatsu Corporation, MarubeniSpecialty Chemicals and Hitachi Chemical Co.,ORTEC, Philips Medical Systems, Saint-GobainCrystals and Detectors, and Siemens Medical So-lutions USA. In addition, I’d like to acknowledgethe additional support from ORTEC and PhilipsMedical Systems who together funded thepadfolio bags that contained the scientific pro-gram and abstract books.

We should also congratulate the followingscientists who received these prestigiousawards at the meeting: Mu Chen received theNPSS Graduate Scholarship Award and aNPSS Paul Phelps Continuing EducationGrant; Edward Hoffman received the MedicalImaging Scientist Award; Jan Iwanczyk re-ceived the NPSS Merit Award; and RalphJames, was recently elected IEEE Fellow.

As general chair, I’d like to thank all of themembers of the program committee who volun-teered their time and energy to the organizationand running of the conference. In addition to thescientific chairs, I am especially grateful to Timo-thy DeVol, Karyn Gerecitano, MargaretDaube-Witherspoon, Richard Freifelder, JanetSaffer, Scott Metzler, Bo Yu, Tony Maeda, andthe group from TDMG who took care of regis-tration. And of course, I thank all of the partici-pants who make this conference very special, yearafter year. I hope to see you next year in Portland.

Joel Karp, the 2002 NSS/MIC General Chair,can be reached at the University of Pennsylvania,Department of Radio Nuclear Medicine, 3400Spruce street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Phone: +1215 662-3073; Fax: +1 215 573-3380; E-mail:[email protected].


CONFERENCE SUMMARY

Joel Karp

General Chairman,2002 NSS/MIC

Rationalexplanation

It is often statedthat of all thetheoriesproposed in thiscentury, thesilliest isquantum theory.In fact, some saythat the onlything quantumtheory has goingfor it is that it isunquestionablycorrect.

Michlo Kaku

PRESIDENT'S REPORT

One of the great strengths of the Nuclearand Plasma Sciences Society is that it isa volunteer society. However, this can

also be one of its greatest weaknesses. If youlook at the back cover of this Newsletter or onthe inside cover of the Transactions, you willsee lists of people filling various positions. Ex-cept for the administrative staff at Piscataway,NJ, these are all unpaid volunteers. The pri-mary functions of this Society are to hold scien-tific conferences and symposia and to publishscientific journals. Up to the point of printingthe journal or auditing the books on the con-ferences, essentially all the work and planningis done by volunteers.

We are one the smallest of the IEEE societ-ies with about 3000 in a 400,000 memberIEEE. We consist of 8 separate interest groupsthat deal with some aspect of Nuclear orPlasma Sciences. This means even the largest ofthese interest groups has less than 1000 partici-pants. The groups are small enough that an in-dividual’s opinion can be heard and make adifference. As I mentioned above, a greatweakness our society is that it is a volunteer so-ciety, and if the quality and quantity of volun-teers is poor the result can be disastrous.

Since you are bothering to read this article,you probably have some concern about thequality of our society. If you are not involvedthe activities of the NPSS, I would encourageyou to get involved at some level. You can startby simply being active in presenting papers atconferences. You can volunteer to review ab-stracts for conferences and the Transactions.We are always looking for more reviewers. Vol-unteer to help organize and run a conference orshort course. The volunteers are the people

who get to chair sessions. Four of our interestgroups have Steering Committees or Councilsthat are responsible for running conferencesand overseeing the publication of parts of theTransactions. Each of these groups has about16 elected seats, and a current elected memberof these groups cannot succeed himself. Sothere is a continuous need for new blood. TheAdCom, of which I am the current president, iseffectively a steering committee for all ofNPSS, where the representatives of the variousgroups meet to deal with the operation andproblems of the society. We also act as the liai-son to IEEE and are represented in its steeringcommittee. The members of the AdCom al-most always come from the individual councilsor steering committees.

I have had the privilege of seeing thestrength of the volunteer system at work in theNPSS. When I first attended an AdCom meet-ing as an appointed chair for the Nuclear Medi-cal Sciences group, I had heard that it wastotally a political body in the worst sense of theword. Instead I found a group of people work-ing very hard to make sure that the NPSSworked. Rather than simply representing hisown constituency, each member of the AdComsupported actions to help other groups toachieve their goals even when there were nega-tive financial consequences. We are consideredto be one the best run societies in the IEEE (Atleast through 2002!) and to maintain this levelof quality we need you to get involved.

Get in touch with Ed Hoffman at the UCLASchool of Medicine, 10833 Le Conte Avenue,B2-096 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6948;Phone: +1 310-825-8851; Fax: +1 310 825-4517;E-mail: [email protected].


NPSS GENERAL REPORTS

Edward J. Hoffman

NPSS President

Utility

A mathematician usually means that a theory is directly useful if it can be used intheoretical physics ... after which he still has to say that insight in theoretical physics itselfis only useful if it is useful in experimental physics. After which you must say that aconcept in experimental physics is, by ordinary criteria, useful if it is useful in engineering...

John Von Neumann

SECRETARY’S REPORT

IEEE NPSS AdCom Meeting9 November 2002

The IEEE NPSS Administrative Com-mittee held its Annual Meeting on No-vember 9, 2002 at the Sheraton

Waterside, Norfolk, VA just before the open-ing of the NSS/MIC meeting. Traditionally,this meeting is held at the end of NSS/MIC,but the TAB and the Board of Directors’ meet-ing series interfered.

Ed Lampo, our treasurer, emphasized theimportance of closing conferences on time. Atthe moment four conferences are delinquentand we have been paying fines for the lateclosings. While the Society is solvent, our re-serves continue to dwindle due to IEEE taxes.We can expect a hit of ~$250k by IEEE thisyear. At times it is hard to remember, to quotePogo, that “us is them.” On an editorial note,it is very frustrating to see NPSS’s careful fis-cal prudence paying for the butterflies.

Peter Winokur, seemingly cheerfully chair-ing his last meeting as president, thankedmany people graciously for their service. Fourpeople deserve particular mention: EdLampo, our stalwart treasurer; Gary Alley,who has managed the NSS/MIC short coursesfor many years now and whose absence willdefinitely be visible; Vernon Price for his con-tinuing outstanding job on membership andchapter development; and Peter Clout for hisand the Communications Committee work indeveloping our handsome brochure and por-table exhibition, and working to migrate andupdate our web site. Dick Kouzes and KenConnor continue to keep it up to date.

Thanks were also given to retiring AdCommembers Alan Todd and Chuck Britton. Pe-ter’s own term and that of Ed Hoffman end atthe end of the year, but they continue asPast-President and President respectively.

Technical Committee ReportsCANPS, under Christian Boulin, continues inits excellent preparation for the 2003 Real TimeConference to be held in Montreal in May underthe chairmanship of Jean-Pierre Martin, with as-sistance from a broadly based internationalcommittee, and especially CEA-Saclay whohost the web and prepared and mailed the post-ers. There will be two short courses offered,

both of which look exciting. The University ofMontreal is handling conference logistics andIEEE is managing finances and registrationCheck out their web site!

Christian is working, too, to expand theTechnical Committee membership. Perhapssome of the ICALEPCS leadership will beasked to participate. Interest continues inholding discussions with ICALEPCS aboutsome kind of common future. He is alsoworking hard to ensure that the RT award isgiven in 2003. It was not presented in 2001.

The 2001 RT Conference, whose bookswere managed by the University of Valencia,has not closed. Ed Lampo and Christian arelooking for ways to spur them to completethis task.

Fusion Technology chairman, Phil Heitzen-roeder, reported that at the last gasp LLNL hadto relinquish chairmanship of the 2003 SFE.Rich Callis and the generous people at GeneralAtomics have agreed to host the conference inSeptember/October 2003. Hotel options arebeing evaluated and a conference team beingput in place. Rich will once again be the gen-eral chairman. Phil noted that the 19th SFEhad closed well in the black, and that the bookswere in audit.

The SFE has dropped in attendance from ahigh of 900 in 1979 to about 140 in 2002. Thecommunity is spread very thin, the budget situ-ation is poor, and it is hard to find people whocan take on the conference organization. Philhas started to look at collocation or merger op-tions with other conferences. A member of thestanding committee will, in fact, attend thePSAC ExCom meeting to discuss future op-tions with ICOPS.

Mike Unterweger reported for NIDComthat the germanium X-ray detector standardhas been issued. The wide-band gap detectorstandard has been withdrawn from IEEE andpublished by ANSI. While NIDCom actedwithout appropriate AdCom approval, thelevel of frustration with IEEE was clearly evi-dent. AdCom decided to support StandardsSociety membership for the appropriateNIDCom members so that being allowed tovote on one’s own standards is no longer an is-


Alberta Dawson

Larsen

NPSS Secretary

Proustianadvantage

But Proustavoided Wilde’sgreatest tacticalerror, which wasto put his geniusinto his life,leaving only histalent for hisworks.

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sue. The RISC and NIDCom chairs will de-cide jointly who is eligible for membership inthe Standards Association. Further discussionof Standards and Standards Association mem-bership will occur at the March 1 AdCommeeting.

We were delighted to hear the announce-ment by Ron Jaszczak, chair of the NMISCommittee, that Ed Hoffman is the recipientof the 2002 Medical Imaging Award. GrantGullberg is the newly elected member ofAdCom from this community. The NMISconstitution and bylaws are undergoing their5-year review, a process led by Bill Moses. TheNSMIC will review the proposed changes andthey will be presented to AdCom in time for avote at the March meeting. Max Vergiever willtake over from Mike Vannier as the editor inchief of Transactions on Medical Imaging.There will be a TMI Board meeting inRosemont, Illinois before the Radiology Soci-ety meeting. The 2005 site selection commit-tee for NSS/MIC has selected San Juan, PR astheir venue. Tom Lewellen will be the generalchair with Simon Cherry as MIC chair andDick Lanza as NSS chair.

Anatoly Rosenfeld has approached bothNMIS and RISC with a proposal for a Mel-bourne, Australia meeting some time in thefuture. Perhaps there will be further word laterin the year.

Joel Karp reported that the 2002NSS/MIC, which was just getting underway,had 290 people registered for the shortcourses and 720 preregistered for the confer-ences. The exhibit area of over 50 booths wassold out and there were some generous corpo-rate gifts that helped pay for the attractivepadfolios distributed to attendees.

Bruce Brown reported on the activities ofthe Particle Accelerator Science and Technol-ogy Committee. In particular, Bruce stressedthe effort we need to make to reclaim thiscommunity more positively for NPSS. This isour largest and often most profitable confer-ence, and is THE conference for particle accel-erators. Let’s not abandon it, but we do needto assess the value of our input to PAC, whichhas been different from other NPSS confer-ences. Your secretary thinks that we are essen-tially making up for a good many years ofneglect and our own lack of participation thatmust be reversed by the engineering commu-nity. You can’t build those big machines with-out the engineers after all!

Future PAC conferences have been sched-uled for Knoxville, TN in 2005 with NorbertHoltkamp of SNS as chair and 2007 in Albu-querque with Stan Schriber of LANL as chair.Look for a PAST web site, which should becoming soon. The 2003 conference web sitehas long been active.

Since Bob Parker was on his way to thePSAC Executive Committee meeting, EdlSchamiloglu reported for him. The 2003ICOPS is now settled on Jeju Island, Koreaand the committee is in place and moving for-ward with its plans. The venue is a good one,at least from the brochures, but much less ex-pensive than downtown Seoul.

Plans for 2004 are moving ahead and therewill be a new short course on the applicationof plasmas and pulsed fields to biological ma-terials. Stay tuned for more.

In 2007 the ICOPS and Pulsed Power con-ferences will once more join, this time underthe chairmanship of Edl Schamiloglu, and willmeet as PPPS in Albuquerque in the weekcontiguous to the PAC07 meeting. It is hopedthat this contiguity will help to expand the ex-hibits at both meetings, as well as bring somedouble attendance. Bob Reinovsky, chair ofthe Pulsed Power TC, noted that the 2007PPPS would be more streamlined with a sim-plified registration fee structure. The 2003Pulsed Power conference, chaired by MikeGiesselmann of Texas Tech, is receiving ab-stracts now. The 2005 meeting will be collo-cated with ICOPS, but will not be a jointmeeting.

Dennis Brown reported on Radiation Ef-fects for Dale Platteter. The 2002 conferencein Phoenix had a 12% increase in attendanceover 2001 as well as a 10% increase in interna-tional attendance. Sixty percent of attendeeswere IEEE members. Good going! The 2003conference will be in Monterey. Check outtheir web site.

Ron Keyser reported on RISC activities.The 2003 NSS/MIC will be held in Portland,Oregon at the Hayden Island resort, withRalph James as general chair. The 13th Inter-national Conference on Room TemperatureSemiconductors is expected to collocate withthis meeting. Leadership is in place and con-ference plans are moving along. However,Gary Alley has resigned as Short Course chair.Gary has given NSS/MIC outstanding serviceover many years; he will be missed AND hardto replace. An update on the 2000 NSS/MICheld in Lyon indicate that changes in tax regu-


Law ofdiminishingreturns

The researchesof manycommentatorshave alreadythrown muchdarkness on thissubject, and it isprobable that, ifthey continue,we shall soonknow nothingabout it.

Mark Twain

lations caused part of the problem in closingthis conference. Ed Lampo and Hal Flescherare working closely with the organization forthe 2004 conference in Rome to try to circum-vent similar problems.

Erik Heijne reported that he is working to-ward a Transnational Committee membershipof 20 that will represent all geographic areas aswell as all NPSS disciplines. The committee’sgoal is to encourage membership growth anddevelopment of new chapters. Several issuesbrought to the committee need attention, in-cluding the long lead times necessary to get vi-sas, and the need for the hosts in the US to getletters of invitation out early. Of course, poten-tial attendees could also help by making theirexpected attendance known early and request-ing an invitation! The committee is concernedthat paper copies of proceedings are no longerbeing offered in many cases. It was, however,pointed out that these are available from IEEEto IEEE members at nominal cost. Another is-sue is the expense of electronic access to jour-nals and the myriad problems with firewalls inaccessing them, if one can afford the charges.This committee regards itself principally as achannel to AdCom. It also expects that it willdisband once AdCom has technical area repre-sentatives who also represent the geographicareas in a more balanced way.

Functional Committees and

LiaisonsRon Jaszczak, chair of the Awards committeeannounced that Peter Clout was the winner ofthe Shea Award. Having worked with Peter invarious capacities through my entire tenurewith NPSS, your secretary can vouch that thiswas a well-deserved award. Congratulations,Peter! The Merit and Early Achievement awardwinners are also selected by the Awards Com-mittee, and the Phelps grants are managed bythem, although these are awarded by the indi-vidual conferences that offer short courses,with the amount available based on the num-ber of short course attendees. Note: May 15 isthe deadline for nominations for the 2003awards. Contact Igor Alexeff ([email protected]) and also check the NPSS web site fornomination forms. It is also time to start think-ing about Fellow candidates. Contact OsamuIshihara at [email protected] for further in-formation.

Vernon Price reported that a new chapter,with considerable support from people at

Brookhaven National Lab, has been formedon Long Island. The San Diego chapter hasrecently become more active as well. In addi-tion, we have retained more members than inyears past, so the society is growing.

As usual, our stalwart Newsletter editor re-quests that conference chairs send him articlesannouncing their conferences well ahead oftime, and a follow-on article after the confer-ence is over is also welcome. Let us all knowhow things went – what was exciting and new.And TC chairs, you, too, should be sendingupdates on activities in your field at least once ayear, and if there’s some really hot news, there’salways room to add a note. Contact Ken [email protected] or [email protected] forNewsletter deadlines. Also note that Ken hasbeen awarded the IEEE’s Emberson Award foroutstanding service. See the article about Kenelsewhere in this Newsletter. Congratulations!

Our TPS and TNS editors both talkedabout publication delays, which seem to begetting worse, rather than improving. Thereare also problems with the quality of images inthe electronically posted journals, and this iscritical for NMIS papers. In general there isvery little follow-up by IEEE with editors andauthors, and the Publications Departmentdoes not seem to use good business practicesand has very tight staffing, which exacerbatesan already bad situation. However, there isalso a problem with authors and editors beinglate and not adhering to the stated timelines,which then bumps the publication to the backof the queue. Both editors are now usingManuscript Central to process papers.

Look forward to a new NPSS brochure in2003. Peter Clout and the CommunicationsCommittee are working on it. We also expectto see our booth at most NPSS conferences,so come by and say hello. The Committee isalso working on a PAC-specific flyer. Let’swork to make NPSS more visible at PAC. Thiswas our conference for 30 years before thephysicists horned in! It is really time for abetter balance and our accelerator engineersneed to make an effort to participate morefully in the planning and organization. Comeon, folks; if this is your area, take part!

Jay Forster noted that there was very littlePACE activity in 2002. There will, however,be a PACE workshop this March. NPSS isvery active in providing short courses, whichis part of PACE oversight.

Peter Winokur reported that the presidentfinally (after our meeting) signed a bill autho-


Forsooth!

Nothing the wisemen promisedhas happenedand everythingthe damned foolssaid wouldhappen has cometo pass.

Lord Melbourne

On doingresearch

You makemistakes as fastas possible buytry not to makethe same mistaketwice.

Robert Wentorf Jr.

rizing the doubling of NSF’s budget overtime, but other agencies supporting the physi-cal sciences (DOE being the largest) have seenlittle in the way of funding increases, and sofar the FY2003 budgets have not been passed,leaving many of us in murky waters.

Ron Jaszczak reported that the TABAwards and Recognition Committee hasmade some minor word changes to their in-formation, but nothing that impacts us. Wecould work to establish a Technical FieldAward (TFA) since none of the existing TFAsembrace the areas covered by NPSS. TheTFAs need to be fairly broad and are oftensponsored by more than one society or by cor-porations.

Our liaison to the Coalition for Plasma Sci-ence, Gerry Rogoff, announced that a pro-posal is in the works to get a history of theplasma sciences into the IEEE virtual mu-seum. CPS will also resume its luncheons withcongressmen and congressional staffers.

Erik Heijne, our liaison to the SensorsCouncil, noted that the Sensors Journal hasabout 1200 subscribers and the first Sensorsconference, held in Florida in June, had about450 papers given, out of 650 abstracts sub-mitted. The next conference, to be held in To-ronto in October, is in direct conflict withNSS/MIC. Erik was unable to attend the Junemeeting and has been unsuccessful in gettingfeedback from the council despite a number ofattempts.

Hal Flescher noted that Philippe Calvel ofAlcatel is the new president of RADECS andthat the first major RADECS conference to beheld outside France will occur this year nearAmsterdam.

Actions Taken by AdComA motion was presented that the funding forNPSS recruiting be paid for by AdCom ratherthan by the conferences. This will be investi-gated further, but it is up to each conferencechair and technical committee to decidewhether they want to support this effort.

It was clarified that AdCom does pay for itsactivities held in conjunction with a confer-ence, but also gives the conference extra roomnights and meal functions to help meet its

contractual obligations. This is a win-win sit-uation since AdCom does not need to estab-lish a separate master account with a hotel,and the conference gets credit for whatAdCom uses.

It was moved, seconded and passed thatIEEE NPSS be in technical cooperation withICALEPCS, which we have supported sinceits inception. Several NPSS members are onthe management committee and are involvedwith the program.

It has been suggested that NIDCom be-come a functional committee. A proposal onhow to accomplish this will be presented atthe March meeting. If NIDCom does becomea functional committee, the size of AdCom orthe distribution of seats will be reevaluated.AdCom may decrease in size or seats may beredistributed based on a new field of interestsurvey of the NPSS membership.

Ed Hoffman was elected President ofNPSS by acclamation. Mark Rader and BillMoses stood for the office of Vice Presi-dent/President elect. We congratulate Bill Mo-ses on his election and thank Mark for hiswillingness to serve.

It was moved, seconded and passed that anew brochure be developed and printed. Acap of $12,000 was set for the cost.

It was moved, seconded and passed that anew flyer focusing on PAC be developed thatwould serve for PAC2003 and PAC2005. Acap of $3000 was set for production and dis-tribution costs.

It was moved, seconded and passed unani-mously that the wording of both the Meritand Shea award statements be changed to al-low each award to be presented at the confer-ence of the recipient’s choice.

Ed Hoffman presented Peter Winokur witha past president’s pin and Peter was given around of applause and warm thanks for hisservice as president.

The next meeting of AdCom will be heldon Saturday, March 1, 2003 at the Hyatt Un-ion Station, St. Louis, MO.

Albe Larsen, the NPSS secretary, can bereached at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Cen-ter, P.O. Box 4939, Stanford, CA 94039; Phone:+1 650 926-2748; Fax: +1 650 926-5124;E-mail: [email protected].


I see!

You can observea lot by watching.

Yogi Berra

Today’s problem

The trouble .....was that the truthwas rarelyclear-cut andalmost neverpolitically correct.

ThomasDormandy

CLASS OF 2006The Newly Elected Ad Com Members

Joseph M. Benedetto

Joseph M. Benedetto received his B.S. inPhysics from the State University of NewYork and his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees

from the University of Maryland. Dr.Benedetto began his career in radiation effectsover 20 years ago as a Graduate Research Fel-low at the National Bureau of Standards. From1983 to 1995 he performed basic and appliedresearch for the Army Research Laboratory.Since 1995, Dr. Benedetto has been withAeroflex UTMC, most recently serving asStandard Product Technology Manager.

Dr. Benedetto has been very active in the radi-ation effects community, publishing over 75 arti-cles in a wide variety of publications, includingIEEE Spectrum, IEEE Transactions on NuclearScience and the Journal of Applied Physics. Todate he has been awarded 2 US Patents and hasseveral more patents pending related to harden-

ing spacecraft electronics. He has also been ac-tively involved with the IEEE Nuclear and SpaceRadiation Effects Conference (NSREC), pre-senting technical papers at the conference almostevery year since 1984. He was nominated foroutstanding conference paper in 1987 and 1995.He has also served as NSREC Session Chairman(1990 & 1999), Finance Chairman (1997), Lo-cal Arrangements Chairman (2001), and willserve as Short Course Chairman at next year’sconference in Monterey.

Dr. Benedetto is a Senior Member of theIEEE, Member of the IEEE Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society and of Sigma Pi Sigma.

Joe Benedetto can be reached at AeroflexUTMC, MS 1004, 4350 Centennial Boulevard,Colorado Springs, CO 80907-3701; Phone: +1719 594-8415; Fax: +1 719 594-8468; E-mail:[email protected].

Grant T. Gullberg

Grant T. Gullberg received his B.S. degreein mathematics from Seattle PacificUniversity in 1966, M.S. degree in

mathematics from the University of Washing-ton in 1971, and Ph.D. degree in biophysicsfrom the University of California, Berkeley in1979. He worked as an Engineer at the BoeingCompany from 1967 to 1971, as a Scientist atthe Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1972to 1980, as a Senior Physicist at GE MedicalSystems from 1980 to 1985, and as an Assis-tant, an Associate, and a Professor of Radiologyat the University of Utah from 1985 to 2002.He is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at the E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

His research interests involve the study of in-verse problems with application to medicineand biology that involve the use of positron andsingle photon emission computed tomography,magnetic resonance imaging, acoustic imaging,and magnetocardiography. Currently he is in-volved in the the development of more accurate

solutions for the emission tomographic prob-lem by improving models of the image detec-tion process, the solution of tensor tomographyproblems in acoustic elasticity imaging and inmagnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging,the development of physiological kinetic mod-els for dynamic SPECT applications, the studyof the relationship between cardiac function andcardiac deformation using gated SPECT andcine MRI, and the solution of electromagneticinverse problems from MCG data.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and hasserved on the NPSS Nuclear Medical SciencesTechnical Committee, as an Associate Editor ofIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and asProgram Chairman for the 1999 IEEE MedicalImaging Conference.

Grant Gullberg can be reached at the E.O.Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Mailstop55R0121, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA94720; Phone: +1 510 486-7483; Fax: +1 510486-4768; E-mail: [email protected].


Joseph M. Benedetto

Elected Ad ComMember 2003-2006

Grant T. Gullberg


Glenn F. Knoll

Glenn F. Knoll is Professor Emeritus ofNuclear Engineering and RadiologicalSciences at The University of Michi-

gan, and remains active on a part-time researchappointment in the same department. Follow-ing his undergraduate education at Case Insti-tute of Technology, he earned a Master’s degreefrom Stanford University and a doctorate inNuclear Engineering from the University ofMichigan. He joined the Michigan faculty in1962, and served as Chairman of the Depart-ment of Nuclear Engineering from 1979 to1990, and as Interim Dean of the College ofEngineering in 1995-96. His research interestshave centered on radiation measurements, nu-clear instrumentation, and radiation imaging.He is author or co-author of over 200 technicalpublications, 7 patents, and 2 textbooks.

He has been elected a Fellow of the Ameri-can Nuclear Society (ANS), the Institute ofElectrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),and the American Institute for Medical and Bi-ological Engineering. He has been chosen toreceive three national awards given annually byprofessional societies: the 1979 Glenn MurphyAward of the American Society for Engineer-ing Education, the 1991 Arthur HollyCompton Award of ANS, and the 1996 An-nual Merit Award of the Nuclear and Plasma

Sciences Society (NPSS) of IEEE. He a receiv-ing editor of Nuclear Instruments and Meth-ods in Physics Research, Part A, and pastmember of the editorial boards for Nuclear Sci-ence and Engineering and IEEE Transactionson Medical Imaging. In 1999 he was inductedto membership in the National Academy ofEngineering. In 2000 he received the highestannual faculty recognition from the College ofEngineering of the University of Michigan, theStephen E. Attwood Award. He has served asconsultant to 25 industrial and governmentalorganizations in technical areas related to radi-ation measurements, and is a Registered Pro-fessional Engineer in the State of Michigan.

His prior services to IEEE/NPSS have in-cluded Chair of the Technical Committee onNuclear Medical Science (in its early days),Steering Committee representative to Transac-tions on Medical Imaging (as this publicationwas first being established), Guest Editor of theNSS issue of Transactions on Nuclear Science,NPSS Editor-in-Chief, and Chair of the Radia-tion Instrumentation Technical Committee.

Glenn Knoll can be reached at the NERS De-partment, University of Michigan, 2355 BonisteelBlvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104; Phone: +1734 936-0121; Fax: +1 734 763-4540; E-mail:[email protected].

Patrick G. O'Shea

Patrick G. O’Shea is Director of the In-stitute for Research in Electronics andApplied Physics at the University of

Maryland, and a faculty member in the De-partment of Electrical and Computer Engi-neering. He received his Ph.D. in physicsfrom the University of Maryland in 1986.His early research was at Los Alamos Na-tional Laboratory (1986-94) on particle ac-celerator projects: the Beam ExperimentAboard Rocket Project (launched first RF ac-celerator into space); and later as the ProjectLeader of the APEX Free-Electron Laser Pro-ject where he lead the construction of the first

photoinjector driven ultraviolet FEL. Laterhe worked at the Duke University(1994-98), where he supervised the con-struction of the 300-MeV linac at the DukeFEL Laboratory. Prof. O’Shea’s current re-search is in the area of space charge domi-nated beam physics, FELs and applications.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical So-ciety and a Senior member of the IEEE.

Patrick O'Shea can be reached at the EnergyResearch Building, University of Maryland, Col-lege Park, MD 20742-3511; Phone: +1 301405-4977; Fax: +1 301 314-9437; E-mail:[email protected].


Glenn F. Knoll


Patrick G. O'Shea


DIVISION IV DIRECTOR’S REPORT:SWAN SONG

The June-September swoon in the stockmarket sharpened the focus on invest-ments at the November BoD series. Will

the October-November market rise continuethrough the end of the year? You will probablyknow the answer by the time you read this, butit will not minimize the concentration on theIEEE portfolio in the months to come. In ret-rospect, one of the smartest financial reportingchanges implanted 2 years ago was the separa-tion of operations from investments. Opera-tions have been under intense scrutiny, and willcontinue to be. The results are positive and no-ticeable. Now it’s time for investment policy tohave its turn in the spotlight.

But there are more, larger issues. Our ac-counting consultants reported their thoughtson IEEE’s Corporate Infrastructure (CI) atthe November BoD Series, which is of strate-gic importance to the Institute. It’s at the endof this article. First, an update of recent finan-cial issues.

Infrastructure ExpensesDirect infrastructure expenses have been iden-tified and a distribution algorithm was passedin February. Now that we know what they are,we can work on cutting them. It is beginningto happen. In November, TAB passed the mo-tion from TAB FinCom to distribute 2002 in-direct costs in TAB according to the defaultmethodology, excluding co sponsored publica-tions, for 2003 and going forward. This meth-odology prescribes a distribution in proportionto ASPP and Book Broker revenue shares, andan additional component proportional to Soci-ety year-end reserves.

The important issue here is NOT the algo-rithm, since others give pretty much the sameshare, but the amount of the distribution. In2002, the combined direct/indirect infrastruc-ture amounted to 21.5M. These are scheduledto be reduced to 18.7M in 2003, through workon cost-cutting and business rule simplifica-tion. In case you have not skipped to the CIsection yet, the consultants want to transfer asmany indirect functions as possible to direct

charges. Easier to identify and validate as eithernecessary or unnecessary.

Business Rule SimplificationIn November 2001, the BoD charged RABand TAB with identifying business rulechanges to realize a possible $3M annual sav-ings in infrastructure charges associated withmembership services. RAB and TAB BusinessRule Simplification teams have been workingthe details since February 02. TAB committeediscussions have focused on simplifying theoptions available for Society membership, andthe subscription process for members regard-ing optional Society publications.

In June, TAB endorsed the concept that, ingeneral, member fees and prices should at leastcover the relevant variable costs. In November,the Cost-of-Membership task force reportedback on three metrics to measure membershipcosts; these metrics will be made available to eachSociety for their use in running their member-ship “business”, starting with the 2003 budgetcycle. Further details can be found in TAB Cau-cus Treasurer’s Report (link below). This samegroup has also been looking at business rule sim-plifications, and at their suggestion, also in No-vember, TAB passed a motion which willconsolidate student, retired, minimum income,and unemployed member categories for the pur-pose of providing a single discount to Societymembership dues and Society optional publica-tions. Details of this and other business rulessimplification efforts in the membership area arein TAB agenda item V.C. Both actions are lo-cated in http://www/ieee/org/organizations/tab/tco_tabagendas.html. Three items remain onthe membership business rules table. The first ishow to simplify the offerings of Society optionalpublications. The second is simplifying the Tech-nical Interest Profile selection procedure. Theholy grail of membership business rules simplifi-cation is web renewal, because this would takeaway the need for the print membership bro-chures and costly reminder mailings. Web re-newal is just about at the 50% mark, andRegions 7-10 are leading the adoption of this


Peter Staecker

Outgoing Division IVDirector

DIVISION IV REPORT

Trompe desomething

But they diddeceive - and forthe most ancientreasons. Theywere so absurdthat they had tobe true.

ThomasDormandy

service. When fully adopted, electronic renewalcan save over $1M annually. This committee andIEEE staff will continue to work on these issues.You can do your part by renewing electronically.

In case you have not skipped to the CI sec-tion yet, the consultants are fully behind thisand other simplification efforts. Cut the com-plications, save money.

2002 Forecast (Update):

Focus on Investments

As the year winds down, operations for theS/Cs are very close to break-even. The infra-structure cuts made early in the year have re-laxed pressures on the Societies to deliverrevenues in a down economy.

Unfortunately, 2002 so far has not been fa-vorable to our investment portfolio, and whileOctober and November were strong months,equity indices are down for the year, and itdoes not look likely that they will recover toparity with January 02 by year-end. It is clearthat efforts by staff and volunteers to normal-ize operations over the past 2 years have paidoff. Now the elements of our investment port-folio strategy have come under scrutiny as themarket continues to droop. Specific questionshave been asked, all of which have a strategicnature. What is our investment policy andhow do we benchmark it? How do we defineand measure risk tolerance? How do we con-vert risk tolerance to asset allocation? Whatstrategic elements of our policies offer guid-ance for transitioning to different asset mixesor risk tolerances? Accordingly, a TAB AdhocInvestment Advisory Committee will beformed to provide a direct path of communi-cation between the IEEE Investment Com-mittee and TAB.

The consultants agree that balanced budgetsare great, and support a complete and clear in-vestment strategy and policy.

2003 Society Budget Highlights

While the bottom line for the Societies wasmarginally positive at the 2003 Novemberview, 9 Societies have negative nets for 2003,and 6 of those 9 have had negative budgetsfor the past two years. These 9 Societies ap-peared at the TAB FinCom meeting in Chi-cago to present their plans for recovery. Fourof the 9 participants will return in Februaryfor an update.

Corporate Infrastructure Study

Finally, the CI section! Since the June BoD Se-ries, an independent accounting consultant hasbeen studying the corporate infrastructure ofthe Institute. Their findings, presented at theNovember BoD series, are in 4 main catego-ries: Governance, Simplification, Strategy, andTrust. Here’s my take on their report.

Governance: IEEE is a membership-led orga-nization. Membership-led organizations movemore slowly than management-led organiza-tions, and are effective only to the extent that theMembers have a view for the entire organiza-tion. With 1-2 year S/C leadership terms, and 2year BoD terms, our governance knowledgegets cycled off far too quickly. Result? Learningcycles that consume much of the term of service.During the learning cycle, without a view forthe organization, votes are cast with/for the con-stituency, the only point-of-view available tonew leadership. As a further consequence, themember-governors learn by managing, or mi-cro-managing. Staff does our bidding, and thedaily work gets done, albeit very inefficiently.Unfortunately, there is little time for workingstrategic issues (see below). Recipe for improve-ment—set longer terms for our leadership (S/CPresidents, Board Members). Reduce the size ofgoverning boards, whose members are selectedat-large on the basis of skills, not quotas. Let theleadership lead (i.e., set strategy), and allow thestaff manage to the scorecard set by the strategy.

Simplification: IEEE’s corporate infrastructure(CI) is far too complex, a result of the rules we setto serve our constituents. The CI should be di-minished and its role should be defined. Our costallocation model is complex and complicated. Tothe extent we do not understand it, we wastemoney and time. Our budget process needs anoverhaul. Thirteen months is too long. Simplifi-cation of Business Rules will save millions.

Strategy: Get one. Define and benchmarkbig picture issues in publishing, membership,governance, and fiscal policy.

Trust: This topic is an overarching one, andis probably the most important to changingour situation. We need to empower a smallteam and let it be the agent for changes notedabove. The problem with associations is thatthey are democratic.

Bottom line: We need a more nimble gover-nance structure and a long term strategy. Sim-plification should be on every scorecard, andchange will only happen with trust.


Clear view

If you are notconfused you arenot informed.

Unnamedurologist on thebenefits oftestosteronereplacementtherapy.

Hi Ho!

Nothing is reallywork unless youwould rather bedoing somethingelse.

James MatthewBarrie

That, in a nutshell, is the word from our in-frastructure consultants… strong medicine.Does this have a familiar ring to it? Resumingan effort begun in 1992 (!), a Presidential BlueRibbon Committee, reestablished in 2000, pre-sented governance proposals in July and No-vember 2001(http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/6/Docs/pbrc_nov01_final.htm) with striking similari-ties to the Consultants’ suggestions. At thattime, the medicine was too strong. Principleswere approved, but change agents were notempowered to implement the tough issues,such as dissolution of committees, and creat-ing a smaller BoD with longer term limits.Now we have essentially the same messagefrom outsiders.

DiscussionBy the time you read this (written in Decem-ber 2002) my term as your Division Directorwill be history. It has been a pleasure, I assureyou, to meet so many energized volunteers.I’m not going away just yet, but will stickaround as TAB Treasurer, and look forward tofurther discussions on finance as well as theother issues on the CI agenda. Hal Flescher(h.flescher@ ieee.org) is your new man. Askhim what his views are on the consultants’ re-port. Let’s get going!

Peter Staecker can be reached at 167 CedarStreet, Lexington, MA 02421; Phone : +1 781861-7643; Fax: +1 626 608-2967; E-mail:[email protected]

NUCLEAR MEDICAL AND IMAGINGSCIENCES TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

(NMISTC)

The Nuclear Medical and Imaging SciencesTechnical Committee (NMISTC) includesNPSS members who are interested in sci-

entific and educational activities that promote thefields of nuclear medical and imaging sciences.The activities of the NMISTC are managed bythe Nuclear and Medical Imaging SciencesCouncil (NMISC), consisting of 15 electedmembers-at-large who serve for three years. Fivenew Council members are elected each year. TheNMISC organizes and manages the Medical Im-aging Conference component of the annualIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and MedicalImaging Conference (NSS/MIC), and acts as aliaison with three other IEEE societies inco-sponsoring the publication IEEE Transac-tions on Medical Imaging. There are twoNMISC awards available: the Medical ImagingScientist Award, made in even numbered years,and the Young Investigator Medical Imaging Sci-ence Award, made in odd numbered years. Infor-mation about these awards can be obtained fromthe NPSS Web site at ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htm, or by contacting the NMISCAwards Chair, Margaret Daube-Witherspoon([email protected]).

The NMISC held its Annual Meeting on No-vember 15, 2002 at the Waterside Marriott Ho-tel in Norfolk, VA. Members and newly elected

members present included: John Aarsvold(new), Craig Levin, Magnus Dahlbom, Marga-ret Daube-Witherspoon, John Engdahl, LarsEriksson, Eric Frey, Marijana Ivanovic, RonaldJaszczak, Steven Meikle, William Moses,Bradley Patt, Charles Stearns, ChristopherThompson (new), Ben Tsui (new), Larry Zeng,and George Zubal. The other newly electedmembers for 2003 are Tom Lewellen and Ron-ald Huesman. Additional attendees at the meet-ing included: Simon Cherry, Alberto DelGuerra, Edward Hoffman, Joel Karp, RonKeyser, Michael King, Tony Lavietes, RobertMiyaoka, and Graham Smith.

Ben Tsui (2001 MIC Program Chair) pre-sented an updated report on the 2001 IEEEMIC meeting that was held in San Diego.There were 338 submitted abstracts. Of thistotal number, 37 were rejected, 77 were as-signed to oral sessions, and 216 were assignedto poster sessions. There were 68 reviewers ofabstracts for that meeting. There were 20 stu-dent travel grants awarded.

Joel Karp (2002 NSS/MIC General Chair)reported on some of the key statistics of the2002 NSS/MIC meeting that was held in Nor-folk. There was a total of 826 registrants, ofwhich approximately two-thirds signed up forMIC. This marked the first time in NSS/MIC


Ronald Jaszczak

Chair, NMISTC

TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

So, why try?

It is impossible tomake anythingfoolproofbecause fools areso ingenious.

Old saw

history that the MIC registrants surpassed theNSS registrants. For this meeting, the NSS andMIC posters were together, and all posterswere kept up for the duration of the confer-ence. There were more posters and reducedoral presentations compared to the previousyear. Ed Hoffman was presented with the pres-tigious Medical Imaging Scientist Award at theMIC Banquet. The general consensus was thatthe Norfolk meeting was a great success. The2003 NSS/MIC meeting will be held in Port-land. Mike King is the MIC Program Chair.

Alberto Del Guerra (2004 NSS/MIC Gen-eral Chair) reported on the plans for the 2004Rome NSS/MIC meeting. The conferencecommittee is set, as is the budget. The hotel isjust outside of Rome and has 900 rooms.There will be enormous floor space for posters.Special events are planned for every night. Thegoal is to have more than 1200 attendees.

Simon Cherry (2005 MIC Chair) reportedon the status of the site selection for the 2005NSS/MIC meeting that will be held in PuertoRico. Five properties were reviewed. The firstchoice selected was the El Conquistador Re-sort, for which low room rates have been nego-tiated. Mid-day breaks in the conferencesessions are expected. Tom Lewellen will be thegeneral Chair. There will be a lot of poster ses-sions, just like last year. Many more studenttravel grants are expected to be made.

For 2006, a proposal was made and passed toreturn to the Town and Country Hotel in SanDiego. Graham Smith has agreed to be the Gen-eral Chair for the 2006 NSS/MIC meeting.

Steve Meikle reported on the concept of anAustralian site for a future NSS/MIC meeting.Some of the drawbacks that were mentionedincluded: possible lower attendance, too ex-pensive for students, and foreign travel restric-tions for attendees from certain nationallaboratories. In spite of these perceived draw-backs, there was a motion that was passed tocontinue investigating the feasibility of holdinga future NSS/MIC meeting in either Australiaor elsewhere in the Pacific Basin and Rim re-gions (for example, Hawaii, Japan, or Korea).

The Annual Meeting concluded with the an-nouncement that Magnus Dahlbom was electedas the new NMISC Vice-Chair and Chair-elect.

Excerpted from the Minutes of the AnnualMeeting submitted by Craig Levin, Secretary,NMISC, who can be reached at the Nuclear Med-icine Division, School of Medicine, University ofCalifornia/VA Medical Centers, San Diego, CA92161; Phone: +1 858 552-7511; Fax: +1 858552-4387; E-mail: [email protected]. RonaldJaszczak, Chair, NMISC, can be reached at theDepartment of Radiology, DUMC-3949, DukeUniversity Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710;Phone: +1 919 684-7685; Fax: +1 919684-7122; E-mail: [email protected].

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FORNEW MEMBERS OF THE IEEE NPSSNUCLEAR AND MEDICAL IMAGING

SCIENCES COUNCIL (NMISC).

It is time again to nominate candidates forelection into the NMISC. The council gov-erns activities and issues relevant to the

IEEE NPSS medical imaging community.Candidates must be official members of theIEEE NPSS. Self nominations are encouraged.

Please send all nominations by June 1, 2003 toCraig Levin, NMISC Secretary and NominationsCommittee chair who can be reached [email protected].


Where the money isn’t

Oddly enough, it is precisely because of the harmlessness of such research [ontrilobites] that it is more difficult to fund: the only science that never has to fight forfunding is that with military or medical significance.

Richard Fortey

INSIDE THE RADIATION EFFECTSSTEERING GROUP

The IEEE Radiation Effects SteeringGroup (RESG) held its annual fall busi-ness meeting in Monterey, California, at

the site of our upcoming 2003 Nuclear andSpace Radiation Effects Conference(NSREC).

Yes, this year NSREC will celebrate its 40thanniversary conference in Monterey on July21-25, 2003. The RESG chose Monterey be-cause of its excellent location and outstandingtechnical facilities. We found the “environ-ment” at this conference location to be verypeaceful and relaxing, a good choice forNSREC.

The DoubleTree hotel, located on Fisher-man’s Warf in Monterey Bay, is the site of thisyear’s conference. The hotel is surrounded by ahistoric old-town area, which includes manyoutstanding restaurants, gardens, and tinyshops. In fact, a small microbrewery is locatednext to the hotel. Need I say any more? Andthis year, bring a sweater, as Monterey’s aver-age daily maximum temperature is 68F in July.The Wednesday evening social will be held atthe Monterey Aquarium, so bring the family.

Allan Johnston from Jet Propulsion Labora-tory and his 2003 conference committee areplanning to observe the 40th anniversary of theNSREC with a special June issue of the Trans-actions on Nuclear Science (TNS). The specialissue will include about 20 invited papers,summarizing the significant technical findingsof the radiation effects community over thepast 40 years. If all goes according to schedule,the June 2003 issue of TNS will be available forNSREC attendees in July.

And speaking of the TNS, did anyone no-tice that the December issue arrived in De-cember this year? That may not sound like asignificant event, but it is. Congratulations tothe authors, reviewers, guest editors, and IEEEpublications for making this happen. We arestarting a new tradition.

As far as future NSRECs are concerned, the2004 conference is scheduled for July 19-23,2004 at the Renaissance/Waverly hotel in At-lanta Georgia. Dan Fleetwood of VanderbiltUniversity, Conference General Chairman, hasbeen working for over a year on the details ofthis meeting.

Last year, Fred Sexton of Sandia NationalLaboratories was appointed as 2005 Confer-ence General Chairman. Fred visited severalpotential sites this fall. At this point, we aregiving serious consideration to Seattle,Washington.

It takes more than three years to plan thosedetails for each NSREC. Janet Barth of NASAGoddard Space Flight Center was recently ap-pointed as 2006 Conference General Chair.Janet is excited about serving NSREC in thiscapacity and has started to look for prime loca-tions to host her conference.

During the fall RESG meeting in Monterey,Professor John Cressler (IEEE Fellow) fromGeorgia Institute of Technology was selectedas Associate Guest Editor for the December is-sue of the Transactions on Nuclear Science(TNS). The editor’s job has a 3-year term.John will support Guest Editor Jim Kinnisonfrom John Hopkins Applied Physics Labora-tory and Assistant Editor Lew Cohn from De-fense Threat Reduction Agency in the hugetask of organizing our peer review of the up-coming December issue. John is well suited forhis position, having been an integral part ofboth the IEEE NPSS and IEEE Electron De-vices communities for many years. And sinceour guest editors have now started this new“tradition” of on-time publication, we expectthe best in 2003.

RESG, with the help of Dr. Tim Holmanfrom Vanderbilt University, recently publisheda video of the 2002 Radiation Effects ShortCourse on CDROM. We did this as a promo-tional tool to attract new members to NPSSand our annual rad-effects short course. Ap-ple’s “Quick Time” video format was used,which allows the CD to be played on a stan-dard PC (or Mac) computer. NPSS members,who attended the 2002 short course, received acomplimentary copy of this CD. Extra copiesare available to NPSS members to use as a pro-motional tool. If you would like a copy of thisCDROM, please contact me. Of course, youwill be asked to show this video to yournon-NPSS colleagues at work, and tell themwhy YOU are an NPSS member. We are bank-ing on the fact that it’s “your word-of-mouth”that attracts 99% of our new members.


Dale Platteter

REC ChaIrman

I know...

Knowledge is notknowing anydifferent until weknow different.

L. Barton

Keep visiting our web site at www.nsrec.com for author information, paper sub-mission tips, vendor links, on-line registration,and the latest NSREC information.

Dale Platteter serves as Chairman of the Radi-ation Effects Steering Group, which oversees the

NSREC Conference. He is technical chair of theNPSS Radiation Effects Committee. Dale can bereached at NAVSEA Crane, Code 605, Building3334, Crane, IN 47522; Phone: +1812854-1206; Fax: +1 812-854-1751, E-mail:[email protected]

NEW RESG MEMBER-AT-LARGE

Gary Lum was elected Junior Mem-ber-at-Large, Radiation Effects Steer-ing Group (RESG) during the annual

Open Meeting at the 2002 Nuclear and SpaceRadiation Effects Conference (NSREC)

Gary earned his B.A. in Physics at the Uni-versity of California, Berkeley, California andhis M.S and Ph.D. in Physics at the Universityof Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. He received apostdoctoral fellowship from the University ofCalifornia, San Francisco Medical Center toimprove the detection efficiency of gamma raysin a nuclear imaging positron tomographycamera for locating cancer tumors.

After joining Lockheed Missiles System Di-vision in 1980, Gary headed the radiation ef-fects analysis group. He joined IntelCorporation in 1984 to work as a device physi-cist on the modeling and CMOS process ofnonvolatile memories, 64 kbit and 256 kbitelectrically erasable PROMs. Shortly after1986, he returned to Lockheed to support anumber of Department of Defense programs.From 1987 to 1990 Gary headed a project to

study the effects of neutral particle beams onelectronics and the effect of the space environ-ment on military systems. In 1988 he receivedthe AIAA award for Best Design Engineer andin 1989 he was a finalist in the prestigiousLockheed Corporate Robert E. Gross technicalachievement award.

Gary has published over 20 technical papersin two refereed journals, the IEEE Transac-tions of Nuclear Science and the Journal of Ra-diation Effects Engineering and Technology.He has served for NSREC and HEART Con-ferences in the capacity of Invited Short Coursespeaker, Best Paper Awards Chair, SessionChair for SEE, Devices and ICs, Local Ar-rangement Chair, Member at Large and Tech-nical Program Chair. For over 15 years he hasbeen invited to be a summary and final techni-cal paper reviewer for both conferences.

Gary Lum can be reached at Lockheed Martin,Orgn. L4-01, Bldg 157, 1111 Lockheed MartinWay, Sunnyvale, CA 94088; Phone +1 408756-0120; Fax: +1 408 756-0120; E-mail:[email protected]

2002 IEEE NUCLEAR ANDSPACE RADIATION EFFECTS

CONFERENCE OUTSTANDINGCONFERENCE PAPER AWARDS

The 2002 NSREC Outstanding Confer-ence paper is the “Impact of PassivationLayers on Enhanced Low-Dose-Rate Sensi-

tivity and Preirradiation Elevated TemperatureStress Effects in Bipolar Linear ICs” by M. R.Shaneyfelt, J. R. Schwank, G. L. Hash, P. E.Dodd, C. A. Reber, S. C. Witczak, L. C.Riewe, H. P. Hjalmarson, J. C. Banks, B. L.Doyle and J. A. Knapp, Sandia National Labo-ratories, R. L. Pease, RLP Research, M.C.Maher, National Semiconductor Corporation,D. M. Fleetwood, Vanderbilt University.

The three chosen meritorious papers are:

“Charge Collection in SOI Capacitors andCircuits and Its Effect on SEU Hardness,” by J.R. Schwank, P. E. Dodd, M. R. Shaneyfelt, G.Vizkelethy, B. L. Draper, T. A. Hill, D. S.Walsh, G. L. Hash, B. L. Doyle, and F. D.McDaniel, Sandia National Laboratories.

“Unified Model of Hole Trapping, 1/f Noise,and Thermally Stimulated Current in MOS De-vices” by D. M. Fleetwood, H. D. Xiong, Z. Y.Lu, C. J. Nicklaw, J. A. Felix, R. D. Schrimpfand S. T. Pantelides, Vanderbilt University.

“Physical Model for Enhanced Interface-TrapFormation at Low Dose Rates” by S.N. Rashkeev,


Gary Lum

RESG JuniorMember-at-Large

Don’t ask me!

If nobody asksme, I know whattime is, but if Iam asked then Iam at a loss whatto say.

St. Augustine

C.R. Cirba, D.M. Fleetwood, R.D. Schrimpf,and S.T. Pantelides, Vanderbilt University, S.C.Witczak, Sandia National Laboratories, A.Michez, Centre d’Electronique et de Micro-electronique de Montpellier.

The two Outstanding Radiation EffectsData Workshop papers are:

“Radiation Effects Predicted, Observed, andCompared for Spacecraft Systems” by Bruce E.Pritchard, Gary M. Swift and Allan H.Johnston, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Califor-nia Institute of Technology.

“Current Single Event Effects and RadiationDamage Results for Candidate Spacecraft Elec-tronics” by Martha V. O’Bryan, Christina M.Seidleck, and Martin A. Carts, Raytheon Infor-

mation Technology & Scientific Services, Ken-neth A. LaBel, Donald K. Hawkins, AnthonyB. Sanders, Robert Reed, Cheryl J. Marshall,and Stephen Cox, NASA Goddard SpaceFlight Center, Ray L. Ladbury, Scott D.Kniffin, Michael Jones, Christopher D. Palor,and James A. Sciarini, Orbital Sciences Corpo-ration, Christian Poivey, Stinger GhaffarianTechnologies, Inc., James W. Howard Jr., HakKim, and James Forney, Jackson & Tull Char-tered Engineers, Stephen P. Buchner, TimothyL. Irwin, and Zoran A. Kahric, QSS Group,Inc., John P. Bings, Jeff L. Titus, Steven D.Clark, and Thomas L. Turflinger, NAVSEACrane - Surface Warfare Center Division, andPaul W. Marshall, Consultant.

RADIATION EFFECTS AWARD

Nominations are currently being acceptedfor the 2003 IEEE Nuclear and PlasmaSciences Society (NPSS) Radiation Ef-

fects Award. The purpose of the award is to rec-ognize individuals who have had a sustainedhistory of outstanding and innovative technicaland/or leadership contributions to the radiationeffects community. The $2000 cash award andplaque will be presented at the IEEE NSREC inMonterey, California, July 21-25, 2003.

Nomination forms are available electroni-cally at www.nsrec.com/nominate.htm. Nomina-tions must be submitted by March 21, 2003.

Additional information can be obtainedfrom Dave Hiemstra, Senior Member-at-Largefor the Radiation Effects Steering Group. DaveHiemstra can be reached at +1 905790-2800x4733.

This and the preceding two articles were pre-pared by Teresa Farris, the RESG PublicityVice-Chairperson. She can be reached at AeroflexUTMC, 4350 Centennial Blvd., ColordoSprings, CO 80907-3486; Phone: +1 719594-8035; Fax: +1 719 594-8468; E-mail:teresa.farris@ aeroflex.com

RITC REPORTSpring 2003

First, I want to thank the retiring membersof the RISC for their work on the com-mittee. They are: Steve Meikle, Carel

van Eijk, John Valentine, Richard Freifelder.Craig Woody remains on the committee aschair elect. The results of the election are inand the new members are: Roger Fulton,Warnick Kernan, Raulf Polichar, AnatolyRosenfeld, and Mike Unterweger. Join me inoffering congratulations to the new members.The members serve for 3 years.

David Wehe has accepted the position ofChairman of the RISC awards committee.The RISC makes two awards: the OutstandingAchievement Award in the odd years and theEarly Career Award in the even years. The2003 award will be the Outstanding Achieve-

ment Award. You may contact David [email protected] for more information or tosubmit nominations. The nomination form isat ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htm.

The 2002 NSS-MIC was held in Norfolk.Joel Karp, General Chairman, deserves ourthanks and congratulations for his work onthis successful meeting. Please see Joel's reportbelow.

The 2003 NSS-MIC will be held from Oct19 to Oct 26 at the Doubletree Hotels Port-land - Columbia River and Jantzen Island inPortland, OR. In addition to the NSS and MICmeetings, the Room Temperature Semicon-ductor Detector Workshop and the Sympo-sium on Nuclear Power Systems will be held atthe same time and place. The NSS-MIC Gen-


Ronald Keyser

Chair, RISC

Not quite

The [Mars] roverswill be exactduplicates, butthat’s where thesimilarities end.

NASA PressRelease

eral Chair is Ralph James; the RTSD GeneralCo-Chairs are Ralph James and Paul Siffert;the SNPS Program Chair is Jay Forster.

Abstract Deadlines• NSS May 16, 2003• MIC May 16, 2003• SNPS June 1, 2003• RTSD June 27, 2003You need to be submitting abstracts soon.

It’s never too early to start writing.For more information on the meeting times,

hotels and any other details, see the website atwww.nss-mic.org.

An important part of the meeting are theshort courses offered before and after themain sessions. As Short Course Chairman,Gary Alley has done an outstanding job overthe many years in organizing these very usefulsessions. As he steps down, Gary deserves ourheartfelt thanks for his many hours of work tomake these as successful as possible. The newShort Course Chairman is Dr. StephenDerenzo. If you have any suggestions forshort courses, send them to [email protected] the schedule is complete, it will beposted on the website.

The General Chairs, dates and places for thefuture NSS-MIC meetings are:

• 2004 Oct 16 to 23, Rome, Italy Gen-eral Chair: Alberto Del Guerra

• 2005 Oct 22 to 29, San Juan, PRGeneral Chair: Tom Lewellen

• 2006 Oct 28 to Nov 4, San Diego, CAGeneral Chair: Graham Smith

Call for VolunteersLet me end with an invitation to all of you withinterests in radiation instrumentation to be-come involved in IEEE/NPSS activities. Oneof the ways open is to step forward as a candi-date for election to the Radiation Instrumenta-tion Steering Committee (RISC). Thiscommittee includes 15 elected members serv-ing 3-year terms that are chosen in an annualballot by those members of our society who areidentified as part of the Radiation Instrumen-tation Technical Committee (RITC). You areautomatically a member of RITC if you are amember in good standing of both IEEE andNPSS and subscribe to the IEEE Transactionson Nuclear Science. RISC has the task of act-ing on behalf of the full RITC membership inorganizational matters, the most important ofwhich is planning for future Nuclear ScienceSymposia (NSS). Meetings of RISC are sched-uled annually at the time of the NSS, with mostother business conducted via email.If you meetthe criteria for RITC membership and have aninterest in becoming a candidate for election toRISC, please let me know.

Ron Keyser, the Chair of the RISC, can bereached at ORTEC, 801 South Illinois Avenue,Oak Ridge, TN 37831; Phone: +1 865483-2146; Fax: +1 865 481-2438; E-mail:[email protected]

REPORT FROM THECOMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE

We presently have an excellent and ver-satile membership booth withgraphics to use at Conferences. Vern

Price and others work the booth, answer ques-tions and sign up members to both IEEE andNPSS very successfully. We look after the boothat my company and arrange the shipping etc.

To help promote NPSS, the brochure wasprepared and printed in 2001 and a new onewill be printed shortly to be used this year andnext. In addition, we produced a single-pageleaflet last year for membership promotion.The new brochure and the leaflet are mailed tomembers and possible NPSS members in the

IEEE at membership renewal time. The func-tion of this promotion is to both seek newNPSS members and to ensure that currentmembers are aware of all aspects of our Society.Possible as a result of this, our membership isgrowing at the second fastest rate of any IEEETechnical Society.

As a new initiative this year, we will be pro-ducing a leaflet focussing on engineers and sci-entists in Particle Accelerator Science andTechnology. This will be used at the PAC thisyear to help recruiting in the field where thereare relatively few NPSS members but very highmeeting attendance.


Peter Clout

Chair, NPSSCommunications

Committee

FUNCTIONAL COMMITTEES

We call thisprogress?

The picture thatwe are seeing isthat as soon aseconomies beginto improve orWesternise thennon-communicablediseasesincrease at analarming rate.

George Alberti(President of theRoyal College ofSurgeons

The web site has been updated as previouslyreported and we are seeking input to expand thecontent. There are many possibilities for addinguseful information aimed at engineers as well asstudents and members of the public. As many ofus work on Government projects or in Universi-ties, I believe that it is appropriate that we de-scribe our fields and their relevance.

My thanks go to all the members of theCommittee and especially Dick Kouzes and

Ken Connor who maintain the web site andVern Price who works so hard on the member-ship booth at meetings and steers the resultingmembership forms through the IEEE.

Peter Clout, Chair of the NPSS Communica-tions Committee, can be reached at Vista ControlSystems, Inc., 176 Central Park Square, LosAlamos, NM 87544-4031; Phone +1 505662-2484; Fax: +1 505 662-3956; E-mail:[email protected]

ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE TNSEDITORIAL PROCESS

This article provides an annual review ofthe editorial process for the Transac-tions on Nuclear Science regular con-

tributed papers (those not associated withconferences or with our new section on nu-clear medical and imaging sciences). Thismaterial also appeared as an Editorial in theFebruary, 2003, issue of TNS, so anyone whoread that note can skip this one and move onto other things.

The data presented begins with 1994, after Ihad fully transitioned into the Editor’s role forthese Transactions. The “year” used for eachdata interval is from November 1 through Oc-tober 31; for example, “2002” represents thetwelve-month interval from November 1,2001, through October 31, 2002.

Figure 1 shows the number of contributedpapers submitted over each of the last 9 years,ranging from 67 to 113. Figure 2 shows forthose manuscripts that completed the reviewprocess in a given year the percentage of manu-

scripts accepted for publication. As can beseen, the acceptance rate continues to remainaround 50%.

Figure 3 shows the average time taken forthe first review cycle for papers completing thereview process in a given year. It generally takesfrom 6.5 to 8 weeks for the authors to be sentthe comments from the reviewers of theirmanuscript. Although reviews are typically re-quested from at least three reviewers, the aver-age number of reviews sent to authors rangesfrom 2.5 to 2.7 (Fig. 4); approximately 10–17% of the time a reviewer does not returncomments on a manuscript, resulting in thisaverage being less than three.

Essentially all contributed manuscripts re-quire revision in response to the reviewers’comments. Over the last nine years, the aver-age time for authors to submit the revised ver-sion of their manuscript after being sent thereviewers’ comments ranges from seven to overfourteen weeks, as illustrated in Fig. 5. It re-


Paul Dressendorfer

Editor TNS

Figure 1. Number of contributed papers submitted forconsideration for publication in TNS.

Figure 2. Percentage of contributed papers accepted forpublication in TNS.

Lease on life

What ages in usis the dwelling.The tenantdoesn’t.

Charles Gounod

mains interesting that on average theauthors seem to take longer to re-spond to the reviewers’ commentsthan for the reviewers to performtheir reviews.

When all the editorial work iscompleted, and the manuscript is ei-ther accepted or rejected for publica-tion, the manuscript (in electronicformat) and illustrations (usually inelectronic format) are sent to IEEEfor publication. Figure 6 shows thatthe average time from receipt of amanuscript by the Editor until its fi-nal disposition (acceptance for publi-cation or rejection) has ranged from3.2 to 4.4 months over the period1994 through 2002. In 2002 if twopapers in which the authors took >6months to return their first revisionare eliminated from this average, theaverage time from receipt to final dis-position drops from 3.5 to 3.2months.

There remains additional time be-fore an accepted manuscript appearsin print. Since the Transactions onNuclear Science is published bi-monthly, on average a manuscript isdelayed one month waiting for thenext publication issue. IEEE sched-ules approximately 11 weeks to for-mat, index, paginate, typeset, andotherwise prepare for printing, print,and mail the issue.

An overview of the times in the pub-lication process is shown in Fig. 7. Foreach year, the average times for first re-view, for the authors to respond to thecomments from the first review, the de-lay from the fact that these Transactionsare a bimonthly publication, and thetime for IEEE to put together the issueis shown, along with what percentageeach of these factors contribute to theoverall time. This depiction is some-what notional, since a number ofmanuscripts undergo a second (andsometimes a third) review cycle, and theaverage time for first review includesthose manuscripts that are rejected (andthus do not proceed through the subse-quent steps of the process). However, itdoes provide a good overall picture ofthe contributors to and the overall timefor the publication process.


Figure 3. Average time to complete first review of paperssubmitted to TNS and to send authors the reviewers'comments.

Figure 4. Average number of reviewers returning comments foreach manuscript submitted to TNS

Figure 5. Average time for TNS authors to return revisedversions of their manuscripts responding to comments fromthe first review cycle.

Unfortunately in 2002 many issues of theTransactions arrived late. As shown in Fig. 7,delays at IEEE again were longer than desiredthis year. In 1999, the average time for IEEEpreparation (excluding the 4 week bimonthlydelay) was about 11 weeks; in 2000 it was 16.7weeks, in 2001 was about 15 weeks, and in

2002 was 20.6 weeks. These delayshave been a concern for IEEE and theseTransactions, and a number of processchanges and efforts have been under-taken to reduce the time at IEEE to itstarget value of 11 weeks.

The international character of thejournal dominated again this year. Ofthe 65 papers completing the reviewprocess during this period, 16 (25%)were from the US. Asia had the mostsubmissions, with 21 (32%); Europehad 17 papers (26%). The MiddleEast accounted for 2 papers, Africahad 2, the Former Soviet Union had 1,and India/Pakistan had 6.

The average number of reviewers re-porting on each manuscript has been2.7. The reviewer pool for manuscriptsdraws upon the expertise of the inter-national community; from 1994through 2001 the proportion of inter-national reviewers (those outside theUnited States) has ranged from 25% to44% of the reviews returned. In 2002that percentage was 44%.

If any readers have other questionsabout the editorial process for theTransactions on Nuclear Science, orhave suggestions for improvement,please do not hesitate to contact me.Also I am continually seeking addi-tional reviewers, so if any of you areinterested in participating, pleasesend me your name, mailing address,phone and FAX numbers, email ad-

dress, and areas of interest/expertise.Paul Dressendorfer, the editor of the Transac-

tions on Nuclear Science, can be reached at theSandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800,MS 1413, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1413;Phone +1 505 844-5373; Fax: +1 505844-8168; E-mail: [email protected]


Figure 6. Average time from receipt to final dispostion (acceptanceor rejection) for each manuscript submitted to TNS

Figure 7. Average time for primary parts of publication processfor each manuscript submitted to TNS.

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NPSS AWARD NOMINATIONSDUE MAY 15!

NPSS offers four Society awards: theMerit, Shea, Early Achievement and upto four Graduate Scholarship awards.

In addition to these Society-wide awards thereare those of our Technical Committees whichare announced in their reports

The Merit Award is given for outstandingtechnical contributions to the fields of nuclearor plasma sciences. The award is based on indi-vidual technical achievement, first and fore-most, on contributions made by a team orteams led by an individual quality and signifi-cance of publications and patents and years ofcontribution to the field. One award is pre-sented annually at the conference of the awardwinner’s choice.

The Richard F. Shea Distinguished Mem-ber Award is presented in recognition of out-standing contributions through leadershipand service to the NPSS and to the fields ofNuclear and Plasma Sciences. Criteria uponwhich the winners are selected are leadershiprole and leadership quality; innovative andimportant contributions to Society activities;service and dedication to NPSS; and, techni-cal achievements.

The Early Achievement Award is granted inrecognition of outstanding contributions inany of the fields comprising the nuclear andplasma sciences, and is given within the firstten years of an individual’s career. Three lettersof recommendation, publications and patentsand other documentation of outstanding con-tributions early in the individual’s career areused as the basis for selection.

The Graduate Scholarship Awards are basedon such evidence of scholarship as academic re-cords, reports, presentations, publications, re-search, related projects and related workexperience as well as participation in IEEE ac-tivities. They are presented at each student's in-stitution.

To submit a nomination for any of theseawards, download the appropriate AwardNomination Form from the web site (http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htm) and submitit as soon as possible, but definitely no laterthan May 15, 2003 to

Igor Alexeff, Ph.D., PEDepartment of Electrical andComputer EngineeringUniversity of Tennessee,Ferris 315, Middle DriveKnoxville, TN 37996-2100Phone: +1 865 974-5467Fax: +1 865 974-5467 (dual unit)Email: [email protected]

This web site will also provide further infor-mation on the awards and of what each prizeconsists. Your NPSS Yearbook and Directoryprovides a list of past award winners.

Our community has many talented indi-viduals well worth recognition. Think of theindividuals in your own community whomight be candidates for these awards andnominate them!

Prepared by Albe Larsen, NPSS Secretary,whose contact information appears at the end ofher Secretary's Report.


AWARDS

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JAN S. IWANCZYK2002 NPSS Merit Award

The 2002 Merit Award of the Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society was presentedto Jan S. Iwanczyk, Ph.D., on Novem-

ber 14 at the IEEE Nuclear Science Sympo-sium held in Norfolk, Virginia. Joel Karp, theNSS/MIC General Chair presented Dr.Iwanczyk with the award, and in his speech,Prof. Marek Moszynski of The Soltan Institutesummarized Dr. Iwanczyk’s main achieve-ments. The citation of the Merit Award reads:“For outstanding contributions to development ofcompound semiconductor detectors, silicon detectors,imaging systems, and their applications in physicsexperiments, medicine and other fields of use”.

Dr. Iwanczyk received his M.S. degree inElectronics from the Technical University inWarsaw in 1970, and his Ph.D. degree in Phys-ics from the Institute of Nuclear Research(INR), Swierk-Warsaw in 1977. During thistime, in his doctoral thesis, he pioneered devel-opment of CdTe X-ray detectors working to-gether with Dr. Andrzej Dabrowski of INR, Dr.Robert Triboulet of Laboratoire de Physiquedes Solides, France and Dr. AbdurakhmanKhusainov of Ioffe Institute, Russia. For theseearly achievements, he was awarded the PolishNational Award for Research on Cadmium Tel-luride Nuclear Radiation Detectors in1976.

In 1979, Dr. Iwanczyk joined the Universityof Southern California (USC) initially as a Re-search Scholar, and later as a senior FacultyMember. During this time he also worked as aconsultant to several detector companies. In1989, Dr. Iwanczyk left academia, moving intoprivate industry working in research companies:Advanced Photonix, Inc., Xsirus, Inc. and fi-nally the Photon Imaging group of companies.

In the early 1980s, working together withDr. Dabrowski, Dr. Iwanczyk developed HgI2detector technology and associated low noisepreamplification electronics for use in high-res-olution X-ray spectroscopy systems. Heachieved record results regarding energy reso-lution (FWHM <200 eV at 5.9 keV) for com-pound semiconductor detectors operating ator near room temperature, and he proved longterm stability of the performance of the detec-tors. As a result of this effort, for the last 15years, TN Technology, Inc., (A Thermo Instru-ments Company) Round Rock, TX has pro-duced and marketed HgI2 detector based

instruments such as “The Metallurgist” – ahand-held XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) alloymetal analyzer, and The Spectrace9000 – a fieldportable XRF system for the analysis of soils,thin films and lead in paint.

Between 1986 and 1995, working togetherwith Dr. Bradley Patt and collaborating withProf. Keith Hodgson and Prof. Britt Hedman(both of Stanford University) he provided lead-ership to a team of scientists to develop a 100-el-ement HgI2 detector system for synchrotronradiation applications such as x-ray absorptionspectroscopy (XAS). XAS studies provide directinformation about both the electronic and metri-cal structure of a selected absorbing atom in acomplex biomolecule solution. The HgI2 systemcomposed of the 100-element detector, amplifi-cation and computer controlled processing elec-tronics specifically designed for high throughputx-ray applications has been tested and installed atthe Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory(SSRL). As a result, a number of scientific papershave been published.

In the late 1980s, working with Mr. MarekSzawlowski of Advanced Photonix, Dr.Iwanczyk developed large area silicon avalanchephotodetector technology for detection of smalllight signals. The large area avalanchephotodetectors (LAAPD) are flagship productsfor Advanced Photonix, Inc. of Camarillo, CA,which Dr. Iwanczyk helped establish in 1991.

Working together with Dr. Khusainov hedeveloped CdTe (PIN structure) x-ray andgamma ray detector technologies, which cre-ated a base for instruments such as theLeadStar analyzer for determining lead levelsin paint, produced by Xsirius. More recently hehas been working with Dr. Khuasainov on ad-vanced CdTe PIN detectors in instruments forgamma-ray spectroscopy in materials safe-guards and homeland security applications.The Radiant 200 is one such instrument,which is currently marketed through an alli-ance between Radiant Detector Technologies,LLC and Ametek/Ortec.

Jointly with Dr. Bradley Patt he developedlarge area (50 mm2) silicon drift type detectorsVortex™ for high-energy resolution (140 eV at5.9 keV) and high-count rate (>106 cps) X-rayspectroscopy. These detectors may revolutionizethe x-ray detector industry by replacing existing


Jan S. Iwanczyk

2002 NPSSMerit Award

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cryogenically cooled Si[Li] systems and findnew uses in x-ray instrumentation applications.Radiant Detector Technologies, LLC currentlyinitiated marketing Vortex™ detector systems.

Dr. Iwanczyk’s recent research interests aredirected toward development of HgI2 poly-crystalline films for digital X-ray imagers. Theultimate goal of this research is to create a newdetector technology based on HgI2 poly-crystalline films coupled to large area flat panelamorphous silicon, thin film transistor ad-dressed readout arrays for medical diagnosticapplications.

Today, Dr. Iwanczyk holds executive posi-tions and provides leadership in three compa-nies he co-founded with Dr. Bradley Patt:Photon Imaging, Inc., which is engaged in re-search and development of all sorts of radiationdetection instrumentation, Gamma Medica,Inc., which is the commercial outlet for Pho-ton’s medical technologies, and Radiant Detec-tor Technologies, LLC, which is thecommercial outlet for Photon’s industrial andscientific technologies.

The medical technologies brought to mar-ket by Gamma Medica, Inc., includeLumaGEM™, a dedicated, high-resolutionsolid-state gamma camera for scintimam-mography which is used for localization andearly detection of breast cancer. LumaGEM isan FDA approved solution, and is coupledwith existing upright mammography systemsallowing optimal positioning of the camera formammoscintigraphy, as well as the use ofbreast compression. Usefulness of this diag-nostic instrument is being proven in several

hospitals and a number of scientific papershave already been published.

Another key development currentlymarketed by Gamma Medica is its range ofMicroSPECT™ animal imaging systems,which are used for high-resolution imaging ofsmall animals in-vivo and non-invasively. TheMicroSPECT products include dual modalityimaging—SPECT and X-Ray CT—allowingresearchers to monitor disease processes andbetter understand new drug treatments.MicroSPECT can be used in evaluating newpharmaceutical products and to further under-stand normal and abnormal bio-systems dy-namically. MicroSPECT products are in usetoday at many leading research universities,and pharmaceutical companies, and have beenused to generate many publications. For thisdevelopment, Dr. Iwanczyk together with Dr.Bradley Patt and Dr. Lawrence MacDonaldwas awarded R&D Magazine’s R&D 100Award for 2001, honoring the top 100 inven-tions of that year.

Dr. Iwanczyk has collaborated with Prof.Edward Hoffman and his group at UCLA in allmedical imaging research programs since1982, and Prof. Hoffman is a key consultant toPhoton Imaging and Gamma Medica.

Dr. Iwanczyk has published over 120 pa-pers, and several book chapters, and he holds11 patents.

Jan S. Iwanczyk can be reached at Photon Im-aging, Inc., 19355 Business Center Dr.,Northridge, CA 91324; Phone: +1 818709-2468; Fax: +1 818 709-2464; E-mail:[email protected].

PETER N. CLOUT2002 Richard F. Shea Award

Peter Clout, the Founder and President ofVista Control Systems, Inc. received the2002 Richard F. Shea Distinguished

Member Award of the Nuclear and Plasma Sci-ence Society. The citation for the Shea Awardwas “For successful and innovative entrepreneur-ship in data acquisition and control, and for hislong-time dedication to and effective leadership ofthe IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society”.

After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree inPhysics from the University of London in 1965,Peter moved to York and the newly-establishedPhysics Department to study for his D. Phil inAtomic Physics. After receiving his D. Phil in

1969, Peter stayed on as a Postdoc to build newexperiments to be controlled by computer. Allthe hardware interfaces and the software wasbuilt and developed by Peter and in addition, toprovide a virtual machine environment, hemodified the computer hardware (which waspossible with a wire-wrap gun then).

In 1972 Peter moved to Daresbury Labora-tory near Warrington. He was responsible fordata acquisition systems for Synchrotron Radia-tion based research. He Implemented a systembased on CAMAC, Honeywell 316 computersand a fast, parallel datalink to an IBM Main-frame computer. He also acted as Deputy


Peter Clout

2002 Shea Award

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Teaching andlearning are likemaking love: bothparties have to bethere.

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Group Leader and assisted the Group Leader inthe management of the group and especially inthe development of CAMAC standards andmodules, developing and writing part of the Se-rial LAM Grader recommendation for ESONE.He also organized exhibits of CAMAC at con-ferences and commercial exhibitions.

In 1977 Peter moved to Hamburg, Ger-many to work at the European Molecular Biol-ogy Synchrotron Radiation Outstation atDESY. There he was responsible for establish-ing a data acquisition system for the experi-ments at the outstation. The system establishedwas very successful and continued in use formany years. It was based on CAMAC LSI-11controllers running a real-time Basic-like lan-guage and a serial highway connection to aPDP 11/45 acting as the server and analysiscomputer. At this time Peter was also workingon and was latterly chair of the Subroutines forCAMAC ESONE working group.

In 1980 Peter moved to Los Alamos NationalLaboratory where he was responsible for thehardware and software for the Proton StorageRing project (1980-1986). This system usedgraphics and commercial products in an innova-tive way in the age before windowing graphics.In addition, the software for the project was de-veloped with an architecture that isolated func-tions into processes and used this softwaremodularity to ensure that schedules were kept.Individual modules of the software could betested independently then integrated without aproblem. This architecture was copied for a mili-tary battlefield simulation system. The PSR con-trol system cost was 8% of the project cost, thelowest monitored in a CERN survey of the timewhich found a range of 8-25%. The system wason-time and first beam was on schedule. OneGerman research laboratory, KFA, copied thiscontrol system. The system was based onCAMAC, multiple CAMAC Serial Highwaysfor computer communication and CAMAC ac-cess with a VAX/VMS for the primary computerand RSX-11S for the CAMAC controllers.

Peter was one of the small group that recog-nized that the Particle Accelerator Conferencedid not then provide the right forum for theAccelerator Controls people to meet, presenttheir work and discuss it. He chaired the Accel-erator Controls Workshop in Los Alamoswhich then developed into a conference series(ICALEPCS) that has been important in de-veloping the controls community for large ex-perimental physics machines ever since.

In the final battle of the Cold War, SDI, Peterwas responsible for the Telescope Control Sys-tem of the Ground Test Accelerator project(1986-1988) This project was considerablysmaller than the Proton Storage Ring and thesystem was developed and fielded in less than ayear. However, windowing workstations androutine computer networking had becomeavailable, and so it was decided to re-design anddevelop anew the software of the system basedon the same overall concepts of the Proton Stor-age Ring System. Out of this project came thebasis for Vista Control Systems’ products andover 20 Laboratories took copies and half ofthese developed systems based on the TelescopeControl System. The system was based onCAMAC, a CAMAC Serial Highway and aVAXstation II/GPX running VMS. This systemwas also on-time and distinctly contributed tothe success of the Telescope experiment.

At this time, Peter was also responsible asProject Leader for the Ground Test AcceleratorControl System (1987–1989) The GTA con-trol system was based on a modification of acommercial product used by another groupand became EPICS. Peter’s role here was polit-ical rather than technical.

In 1988 it was increasingly clear that the po-litical situation in the Division where heworked in Los Alamos was untenable and, onthe other hand, there was excellent acceptanceof the Telescope Control System externally.From this the plans to form a company and li-cense the software developed and in 1989 Peterfounded and lead the company. He is the pri-mary sales person for the product, Vsystem.Vista Control Systems sells a software kit forbuilding control and SCADA systems for re-search, military, utilities and Industry. Plantsthat use Vsystem process a major fraction ofthe steel and aluminum made in North Amer-ica, producing many tens of billions of dollarsof finished product per year. In addition, re-search groups that use Vsystem are successfulwith much lower staff costs than groups usingnon-commercial software.

Peter has held many positions in NPSS andTAB including NPSS President. Currently he isthe Chairman of the NPSS CommunicationsCommittee and also the Chairman of the TABSociety Review Committee.

Peter Clout's report on the activities of hisCommunications Committee appears elsewherein this issue. There you will also find his contactinformation


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SIMON COOKE2002 Early Achievement Award

Simon Cooke received the B.Sc. degreein Physics from the University ofStrathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in

1988, and the D.Phil. degree from the Uni-versity of Oxford, Department of Engineer-ing Science in 1993. His doctoral researchinvolved experimental and numerical analysisof the optical properties of monolayer or-ganic molecular films. He rejoined the De-partment of Physics at the University ofStrathclyde in 1992, as a Research Associatein the Relativistic Electrons, Lasers & Dis-charges research group. In 1996, he movedto the Vacuum Electronics Branch of the Na-val Research Laboratory, Washington DC,where he has been employed under contractwith the University of Maryland (1996-98)and Science Applications International Cor-poration (1998-present).

At the University of Strathclyde, Dr. Cookewas the lead researcher in the design and suc-cessful operation of the first second harmonic,cyclotron auto-resonance maser (CARM) ex-periment for high power microwave genera-tion. In the course of this research, he developeda suite of design codes to simulate fields and rel-ativistic beam trajectories in the electron gun,including space-charge and self-magnetic fields,and coherent interaction with the electromag-netic “Bragg” cavity. The codes remain in use inthe design of new research experiments.

At NRL, Dr. Cooke’s research interests lie inthe development of advanced three-dimen-

sional electromagnetic algorithms for applica-tions in vacuum electronics. He was the authorof a 3-D, frequency-domain, electromagneticssimulation code, CTLSS, among the first toefficiently compute the spectrum of eigen-frequencies for complex 3-D cavities withstrongly absorbing materials. CTLSS has beenused actively by the U.S. vacuum electronicsindustry in the design of microwave amplifierssince 1998. Dr. Cooke’s recent research in-cludes algorithms to alleviate the numericalcomplexity of very large 3-D simulations, sub-dividing the domain to derive an accurateequivalent circuit model, with the goal of sim-ulating complete traveling wave interactioncircuits in 3-D and integrating with time-do-main simulations of non-linear electron beaminteractions.

The award will be presented at the ICOPSconference in Jeju, Korea in June 2003. Hiscitation reads: “For contributions to numericalmodeling of vacuum electron devices and RFcomponents through the development of ad-vanced algorithms for three-dimensional electro-magnetic simulation.”

Simon Cooke has been a member of the IEEEand NPSS since 1995, and can be reached at theNaval Research Laboratory, Vacuum ElectronicsBranch, Code 6840, 4555 Overlook Avenue S.W.,Washington DC 20375; Phone +1 202404-4511; Fax: +1 202 767-1280; E-mail: [email protected]

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDSMu Chen

Mu Chen (1974) received his B.E. de-gree in Engineering Physics in 1997from Tsinghua University, Beijing,

China. He is completing his Ph.D. degree inBiomedical Engineering, Duke University. Heworks in the SPECT Research Lab under thedirection of Prof. Ron Jaszczak. His thesiswork is on the evaluation of myocardial perfu-sion imaging using SPECT (Single PhotonEmission Computed Tomograhy) protocols.His research interests include Receiver Operat-ing Characteristics (ROC) analysis, mathemat-

ical observer model, and statistical image re-construction algorithms. Upon completion ofhis graduate studies, Mu will join CPS Innova-tions, Inc. in Knoxville and work on PET re-search. He hopes to complete his dissertationdefense in Janaury or early Febuary 2003.

Mu Chen can be reached at CPS Innovations,Inc, 810 Innovations Dr., Knoxville, TN 37932;Phone: +1 865 218-3320; Fax: +1 865218-3010; E-mail: [email protected]. He wasnominated by Professor Ronald J. Jaszczak.


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2002 EarlyAchievement Award

Mu Chen

GraduateStudent Award and

PhelpsContinuing

Education Grant

Zhiyu Chen

Zhiyu Chen (S’98) was born on May 2,1971 in Sichuan, China. He receivedthe B.E. degree in engineering physics

in 1994 and the M.S. degree in 1997, bothfrom Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.Currently, he is pursuing the Ph.D. degree inelectrical engineering and is a Graduate Re-search Assistant at the University of Tennes-see, (UT) Plasma Sciences Laboratory,Knoxville. His research interests include thephysics and applications of the one atmo-sphere uniform glow discharge plasma(OAUGDP™), as well as VLSI design and mi-croelectronics fabrication technology.

Mr. Chen is a student member of the AVS.Mr. Chen developed two types of imped-

ance matching circuitry for OAUGDP™ reac-tors, which cannot be matched with theexisting impedance matching techniques thathave been developed for radio-frequency andmicrowave plasma applications at low pres-sures. Mr. Chen also developed a comprehen-sive circuit model for OAUGDP™, and used

PSpice™, a widely-used circuit simulation soft-ware, to simulate OAUGDP™ reactor systems,which has not been seen in the existing litera-ture. His simulation results agree well with ex-perimental data.

Mr. Chen is currently concentrating on hisPh.D. dissertation research topic—developingan OAUGDP™ plasma chemical vapor deposi-tion (PCVD) thin film coater, which will beused to deposit silicon oxide barrier coatingsand other functional thin films at atmosphericpressure. This work will break new ground inPCVD applications.

Mr. Chen has co-authored 10 archival pa-pers in journals and conference proceedingsand more than 25 poster papers, and he is thesole author of two journal papers.

Zhiyu Chen can be reached at the Plasma Sci-ences Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engi-neering Department, University of Tennessee,Knoxville, TN 37996-2100; Phone +1 865974-9699; E-mail [email protected]. He wasnominated by Professor J. Reece Roth.

EDWARD J. HOFFMAN2002 Medical Imaging Scientist Award

Edward J. Hoffman is a Professor of Pharma-cology and Radiological Sciences at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles

(UCLA), where he is Director of the BiomedicalPhysics Graduate Program in the School of Medi-cine. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistryfrom Washington University, St. Louis, in 1971.Following two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow innuclear physics, he received an NIH Fellowship torefocus his research efforts on the field of medicalphysics. During this period, with Drs. Phelps,Mullani and Ter-Pogossian, he developed the firstimaging system designed specifically for PositronEmission Tomography (PET), which was theprototype for the first commercial PET system.

In 1976, Dr. Hoffman moved to UCLA,where his primary research interest was in the in-strumentation and physics of PET. His current ex-panded research includes NIH and DOE fundedendeavors in the development of miniature imag-ing probes and compact cameras useful in animalresearch and in the identification of human dis-ease. Many portions of his research efforts have re-sulted in inception of and improvements tocommercial/clinical versions of the devices devel-

oped in his lab. He has had a significant impact inthe primary training and education of more than20 graduate students and post-docs who havecome through his lab, and on the many studentsenrolled in the Graduate Program he directs, act-ing as mentor and friend. In addition to the seri-ous objectives of education, he actively organizesand hosts holiday, beach and other parties andevents for the students and faculty.

He has been actively involved in the IEEENPSS since 1977, and he currently edits theIEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) is-sues of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Sci-ence. Professor Hoffman is a Fellow of theIEEE, and is the current President of the IEEENuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.

The citation was “For important and sus-tained contributions to the development ofpositron emission tomography and for dedica-tion to graduate level education in the nuclearmedical imaging sciences.”

Dr. Hoffman was nominated by Simon Cherryof UC-Davis (srcherry@ucdavis) and MartinTornai ([email protected]) of Duke Uni-versity who also provided this article.


Zhiyu Chen

GraduateStudent Award

Edward J. Hoffman

2002 MedicalImaging Scientist

Award

W.K. DAWSON2003 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award

W.K. (Ken) Dawson, longtime editorof the NPSS Newsletter and a formerSociety President and IEEE Board of

Directors member, has been honored with the2003 Richard M. Emberson Award. The cita-tion reads, “For leadership in influencing and mo-tivating actions leading to significantimprovements in the Institute’s Information Tech-nology System and the interaction between techni-cal and publication activities,” work that wasaccomplished during Ken’s service on theIEEE Board of Directors. He was the firstnon-US Division Director. His term as Direc-tor was followed by two terms as VP for Publi-cation Activities, overseeing the heart ofIEEE’s business operations. The award will bepresented at the IEEE Honors Ceremony thisJune in Nashville.

The Emberson Award was established in1986 in honor of Dr. Richard Emberson’s man-ifold contributions to IEEE Technical Activitiesas both a volunteer and a staff member. Kenmeets the spirit of the Emberson Award with animpressive IEEE service resumé including:Awards Board, Information Systems AdvisoryCommittee, Implementation Committee forStructural Reorganization, By-Laws Task Force(Chair), Best Business Practices Task Force,TAB Periodicals Council, RAB/TAB Transna-tional Committee, and The Institute EditorialAdvisory Board, to name but a few! Ken waschair of the 1998 TAB Periodical Committeewhen he was forced to curtail committee activi-ties for health reasons. One of his legacy accom-plishments was to pioneer the inclusion ofyoung members on an IEEE Board whichserved as a precursor to the addition of GOLDmembers (Graduates of the Last Decade) toBoard of Directors Committees, which hassince become a BoD requirement.

In real life Ken has had a distinguished ca-reer in the field of particle accelerator controlsystems and operations at the Tri-UniversityMeson Facility (TRIUMF) in Vancouver, as aProfessor at the University of Alberta PhysicsDepartment, and as one of the pioneers in ad-vancing instrumentation systems for acceler-ators and experiments through standardswork of the NPSS headed by another true pi-oneer, Louis Costrell of the National Insti-tute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

These standards, known by their abbrevia-tions as NIM, CAMAC and FASTBUS, setthe stage for systems that have served re-search laboratories as well as specialized in-dustries for over three decades, andTRIUMF under Ken’s leadership has beenon the cutting edge of implementation. Lourecalls some memories from his long associa-tion with Ken in this work:

“In late January of 1969 I received a tele-phone call from a professor of physics at theUniversity of Alberta. He said that he hadheard that the NIM Committee was work-ing with European colleagues on a com-puter- oriented data acquisition system andhe wondered if it would be suitable for thecontrol system of the negative ion cyclotronbeing constructed at the University of Brit-ish Columbia in Vancouver. My responsewas that in a few weeks (February 4 and 5)we were meeting in New York City with col-leagues from Harwell, Saclay, CERN andthe Hahn Meitner Institute to discuss thesystem (since designated as CAMAC), sowhy not join us …. He did just that–andthat was how Ken Dawson first became in-volved with the NIM Committee, NPSS,and the IEEE.“And, happy days, he has been with us eversince.“ If you ever take a walk with Ken, be it inGeneva or Paris or Toronto or San Franciscoor Santa Fe or New York or Boulder or inany of many other cities, you will not pass asingle bookstore–you will enter it. And Kenwill browse through the shelves and willleave with at least one book under his arm.Since Ken is a prolific reader and collector ofbooks, the basement of his house is linedwith shelves filled with thousands of books.Fortunately they are on a lower level or thefloor would surely collapse…“As a Publications Editor and Protector ofthe Queen’s English, Ken is very particular.He and I differ on the use of commas–hefeels I use too many and I feel he uses toofew. Attempting to induce him to be morekindly disposed to their use, I regularly sendhim a batch. And at one point in a reportwhere I had used a number of commas, I in-serted a footnote as follows:


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Frederick WilliamII .... was avague,well-meaningman who triedhard to refrainfrom thinking.

Olivier Bernier

A comma here, a comma thereThe two of them comprise a pairBut we can make it three or fourAnd in some cases even moreAnd that of course Ken will deploreBeyond his reach the numbers soarHe certainly cannot ignoreWhat seems to be an endless storeOF THOSE DAMN COMMAS

- LouAfter obtaining his Bachelor’s Degree at

Université Laval (1951) and Master’s and PhDDegrees in Nuclear Physics at Queens Univer-sity (1951-55), Ken began his professional ca-reer with the Defence Research Board (DRB)of Canada at a weapons research laboratory atSuffield, Alberta in 1955. Ken recalls thoseearly days fondly:

“In 1954-55 a group of us, most fresh PhDs,was hired by DRB to work on instrumenta-tion for the British weapons tests in Austra-lia. While working on this during the daythree of us ran a basic research programnights and weekends using fast neutrontime-of-flight techniques as all the equip-ment we needed was either there or we couldbuild it. The moratorium on open air testingwas called several years later so our researchprogram quickly expanded into the day timehours too. About a year or so after the mora-torium some administrator in Ottawa finallyrealized we were still there ordering stuff andgetting paid. This problem was solved byclosing our part of the station. Upon our re-quest we were told that DRB would sell allour equipment, including a small Van DeGraaff generator for the proverbial $1.00 toany university that would have us and prop-erly house our equipment. After much look-ing around (have Van De Graaff, will travel!)we found one on our doorstep. The Univer-sity of Alberta was in the process of buildingup its Physics Department. During the previ-ous two years it had formed strong groups intheory, geophysics and solid state. They werelooking to do the same in nuclear physics.We had the answer for them! An agreementwas quickly reached and in less than a year allthree of us, plus three of our best technicianswere U of A employees housed in a newbuilding and the grants started flowing in.This was the start of the U of A Nuclear Re-search Centre now called the Centre for Sub-atomic Research. Our other colleagues wentoff to DRB posts in Ottawa and Halifax.Those were the days!”

Ken’s distinguished career at the University ofAlberta that started in 1959 eventually led himinto key positions at the new TRIUMF labora-tory, from 1982 to the present, where thoughnow retired he maintains an office for his myriadadvisory and volunteer activities. From 1982 un-til his retirement and receipt of the rank ProfessorEmeritus in 1993 he served as a Division Headand Special Advisor to the Director. His technicaland scientific responsibilities at TRIUMF in-volved electronics, computing and controls formedium and large scale physics applications.

Although the Emberson Award is a highlysignificant honor, Ken’s contributions to thetechnical and administrative work of IEEEthrough the NPSS AdCom over many moreyears are equally deserving of mention. Ken wasfirst elected to the NPSS AdCom in 1984-87,became Secretary in 1985-86 and President in1987-88. He was honored with election toIEEE Fellow in 1991 for his work in standards,data acquisition and control systems; and withthe Society’s Richard F. Shea Award in 1994 forSociety leadership as President, Editor-in Chiefand countless contributions and leadership tocommittees, organizing of conferences, publica-tions and standards. Continuing working withthe Society as Past President, he successfullycontended for Division IV Director in 93-94and then served subsequently as VP PublicationActivities as described above.

For NPSS, Ken single-handedly created thecurrent NPSS Yearbook and Directory, whichrequired a huge effort to research and documenta complete history of volunteer contributions tothat body, as well as to format its entire contentsdescribing the Society’s technical committees,areas of interest, administrative and liaison com-mittees, in addition to the complete member di-rectory. He continues to be the spirit anddriving force behind one of the best Newslettersof any IEEE Society, routinely spicing technicalnews and reports with quotes and witticismsgleaned no doubt from historical biographiesfilling the W.K. Dawson Library.

Congratulations to Ken for the recognitionfrom IEEE of what we in NPSS have alreadyknown, that he is an outstanding citizen of theIEEE, the NPSS, the University Physics Re-search Community and his profession as awhole. The Emberson is the latest award in a se-ries of highly deserved honors given to Ken inappreciation for his insightful, creative, unself-ish, humorous, enthusiastic and dedicated ef-forts in our behalf over more than three decades.


Thedisappearingmajority

Predominantopinions aregenerally theopinions of thegeneration that isvanishing.

Benjamin Disraeli

Art of thepossible

No more goodmust beattempted thanthe country canbear.

ThomasJefferson

This unanticipated article was prepared by RayLarsen who can be reached at SLAC, MS 66,Stanford University, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA94309; Phone: +1 650 926-4907; Fax: +1 650926-5124; E-mail: larsen@ slac.stanford.edu.Editor's note: The article appears because the edi-tor works on the premise that all NPSS members in

good standing, such as Ray, should have access tothe pages of their newsletter for potentially relevantmaterial. This even if the editor finds that mate-rial somewhat embarrassing. He also appreciatesLou Costrell's contribution and would like to pointout that, thank you, quite a few commas still re-main from the last shipment.

IEEE-USA ENERGY POLICY COMMITTEE

Energy is an important strategic issue atthis time. The IEEE-USA Energy PolicyCommittee has increased its activity on

energy infrastructure issues in its providingtechnical information to governmental deci-sion-makers and in its development and dis-semination of energy policy positions. In therecent past, the Energy Policy Committee hasfocused on the future of the electrical powertransmission grid, issues of the electric market-place structure, and aspects of national securitysuch as vulnerabilities of gas pipelines and im-plications for electric reliability. The committeeis now also addressing expected implications ofthe change of leadership of the Senate, espe-cially the evolution of the Energy Policy Act(H.R.4), which incorporated IEEE-USA-rec-ommended aspects on enforcement of reliabil-ity standards and interconnection standards fordistributed generation.

On a longer time scale, the Energy PolicyCommittee is developing policy position pa-pers on a range of relevant topics: Reliability,Need for a National Power Study, Electric

Power Transmission Policy, Nuclear Power forToday, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, and Ad-vanced Nuclear Power Research and Develop-ment. Many of these policy areas have aspectsin the purview of NPSS. The Committee willlikely also be updating the Fusion Power state-ment to address the recent recommendationsfrom the Fusion Energy Sciences AdvisoryCommittee on the US strategy for burningplasma studies and the ongoing FESAC studyof fusion development paths.

Please contact me with suggestions and ex-pressions of interest in getting involved inthese activities, since member- and society-in-volvement are key to IEEE-USA’s governmentrelations program.

Ned Sauthoff, the NPSS Liaison to theIEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee, can bereached at the Princeton Plasma Physics Labora-tory, MS-37, P.O. Box 451 Princeton, N.J. 08543;Phone: +1 609 243-3207; Fax: +1 609-243-3266; E-mail: [email protected]. The as-sistance of IEEE-USA's Bill Williams is gratefullyacknowledged.

THE SENATE ENERGY BILL CIRCA 2002

As calendar year 2002 winds down, I’mfinishing my second year in the U.S.Senate. I work for Senator Harry Reid,

the Majority Whip, and soon to be MinorityWhip – but still the number two democrat inthe Senate. In my first year on the Hill, Ilearned the legislative process. This year, I gotto put that knowledge into action. I staffedSenator Reid on the Energy Bill, which was onthe floor of the U.S. Senate from March 5 toApril 25, 2002, one of the longest debates inSenate history. In a sense, the energy bill was

largely rewritten on the floor of the Senate be-cause it wasn’t reported out of committee. Itwas placed on the Senate calendar under RuleXIV. But I’m getting ahead of myself, so let mebegin by discussing the need for energy legisla-tion and the legislative history of the Senate en-ergy bill circa 2002.

Electricity generation, transmission and dis-tribution in the U.S. is largely governed by thePublic Power Act of 1935 and the Public Utili-ties Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. The lastcomprehensive energy bill signed into law was


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the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT). Sincethe passage of EPACT, the business of supplyingelectricity had dramatically changed with a de-sire by many to deregulate the market, muchlike telecommunications. The California energycrisis was the straw that broke the camel’s backand cried out for legal and regulatory reformthat (1) more closely reflected the realities of theelectricity market and (2) ensured that thesemarkets function properly. Congress had a clearduty to address this situation as part of compre-hensive energy legislation. To leave electricitylegislation for another day would be to ensurethat the problems faced now in the West mightbe replicated across the country. As always,Congress needed to provide a legislative solu-tion that didn’t interfere unduly in the markets.

Throughout the 107th Congress that cov-ered calendar years 2001 and 2002, many billsdealing with energy were introduced in theSenate or received from the House. Typically,these bills are referred to the committee of ju-risdiction before they are placed directly on theSenate calendar to be debated, amended, andpassed. For an energy bill, the relevant commit-tee is Energy and Natural Resources, whichwas chaired by Senator Bingaman. Amazingly,any Senator can object to a bill being referredto committee and can place it directly on thelegislative calender under Senate Rule XIV.Such was the case for the Senate energy bill.Senators do not use this procedure very often,in large part out because of respect that theyhave for their committee system and for thecontribution that committees make in screen-ing and evaluating the measures that are refer-eed to them. A measure directly placed on thecalender under Rule XIV is not guaranteedfloor consideration.

To first order, action on a bill can only pro-ceed at the discretion of the Majority Leader. Al-though the Majority Leader decides when tobring legislation to the floor, world events oftendictate the schedule. The Congress crafted aHomeland Security bill, which was debated inthe Senate from September to November. Thislegislation took center stage for obvious rea-sons. Recently enacted legislation on CorporateAccountability languished in committee andnever would have made it to the floor, except forall the corporate scandals on Wall Street. In lightof events in the Middle East, many Senatorsconsidered energy a national security issue thatdemanded immediate attention. As VictorHugo said, “There is nothing more powerfulthan an idea whose time has come.”

The life of a staffer during debate on a majorbill is tough. It involves many exhaustive daysand late nights. A staffer prepares floor state-ments and fully vets issues for their bosses.Staffers were prepared for all the important andcontroversial issues, e.g., drilling in the ArcticWildlife Refuge, improved fuel efficiency stan-dards, and climate change, but the 1000-pageSenate energy bill contained countless smallerprovisions that needed to be understood andinterpreted in light of a Senator’s constituentsand prior voting record. Examples of theselesser provisions included hydraulic fracturingfor extraction of coalbed methane, transpar-ency in the trading of energy derivatives, andresearch and development for improved cata-lytic converters. A staffer needs to find enoughtime to do their homework and still be on theSenate floor, where staffers sit on benches inthe back corners of the chamber. You’re thereto support your boss, but there is also a greatdeal to learn from other staffers as well as lead-ership aides who often have a great deal of in-sight into how events might unfold.

A bill is broken into different sections or“Titles,” and the electricity title in the energybill was extremely complex and time consum-ing. Each provision needs to be evaluated frommany different perspectives. For example, whatrecommendation do I make to Senator Reid onthe reliability provisions of the electricity title?What’s in the best interests of Nevada? Howdo the Western governors view the issue? Howabout NERC – the North American ElectricReliability Council – or NARUC – the Na-tional Association of Regulatory Utility Com-missioners? What’s leadership’s (meaning theparty’s) position on the issue? If an issue isvoted along party lines, it’s always important toknow which Democrats and Republicans willcross party lines, which largely determines itsoutcome in a Senate that had 50 democrats, 49republicans, and one independent. Make nomistake, Senators are extremely knowledgeableabout issues and typically know how they aregoing to vote. In the final analysis, Senators areelected and not staffers. But it’s still the respon-sibility of the staffer to make certain theirbosses know both sides of every issue, as well asits nuances and subtleties.

Senator Reid is the Whip and is always onthe floor. Just turn on CSPAN-2 and you’ll seewhat I mean. He is often called upon to speakon an issue, and it was my job along with otherReid staffers to prepare him. Senator Reid hasmany experienced and extremely knowledge-


Saving grace

Truth is the mostvaluable thing wehave. Let useconomise it.

Mark Twain

Noendorsementseither

Amateurs wouldmake the bestmusicians. If onlythey could play.

AlexanderGlazunov

able Legislative Assistants, who always pro-vided me with guidance and insight. Forexample, they might suggest that I speak to acertain staffer, lobbyist, or organization. Whena bill is on the floor, you don’t have time tofully research any issue, so you’re dependent onwriteups and white papers, which are usuallyprovided by Senate offices that have the great-est interest in an issue or by the DemocraticPolicy Committee. But that information is be-ing made available in real time during the de-bate and not in advance.

If a bill is “reported out” of committee, ittypically means that most of its provisions ei-ther enjoy bipartisan support or at the veryleast a majority along party lines. The commit-tee process provides a preview or scorecard ofwhat’s likely to happen on the floor. Becausethe energy bill came directly to the floor underRule XIV, things were a bit more uncertain.The bill brought to the floor is refereed to asthe “underlying legislation.” It’s the startingpoint. If you want to change the bill, you needto amend it. Normally it takes 51 votes toamend a bill, but it may take 60 votes to over-ride a threatened filibuster or a budget point oforder. The bottom line is that a provision onlystays in the bill if one side or another can dem-onstrate they have the necessary votes. If not,then a series of amendments will ensue until ei-ther side gets the votes. Each side will revisetheir provision by making changes to attractother Senators. For example, if renewable en-ergy is being debated, an amendment might beexpanded to include additional provisions forhydropower that will hopefully attract Sena-tors from the Northwest. Nobody has a pathand in the process. You can’t simply defendthe underlying legislation. If a provision in thebill doesn’t have 51 votes, it will eventually fail.

It’s also worth pointing out that not all de-bates are along party lines. During the debateon fuel efficiency, it was Senators from theMidwest representing the automakers that op-posed improved fuel efficiency standards. Itwasn’t an issue of Democrats versus Republi-cans. Sometimes it’s simply regional, East ver-sus West. Sometimes Senators offer anamendment and then withdraw it, just to makea point and get their arguments in the Congres-

sional Record. Sometimes Senators offer anamendment to get their colleagues on recordand to establish a legislative history. For exam-ple, an amendment was offered for a Renew-able Portfolio Standard requiring utilities tosupply 20% of their electricity from renewableenergy resources by 2020. It got 29 votes, farshort of the necessary 51, but the vote wasviewed as a respectable showing on a contro-versial provision. In the final bill, a 10% Re-newable Portfolio Standard was adopted.

In my opinion, the Senate Energy bill circa2002 was not a great or even a good bill. Theonly thing that could have reduced America’sdependence on foreign oil was improved fuelefficiency standards for cars and light trucks,and those provisions were defeated. Drilling inthe Arctic Wildlife Refuge doesn’t change theenergy balance equation. In addition, the elec-tricity title in the Senate bill had been criticizedfor its lack of consumer protections. The bestpart of the Senate energy bill was its tax provi-sions for renewable energy, alternative vehicles,and energy efficiency.

In the summer of 2001, the House passedits own energy bill. In late July of 2002, aHouse-Senate conference began the dauntingjob of reconciling a 1000-page Senate bill witha 500-page House bill that did not include anelectricity title. Senator Reid was a conferee, soI was heavily involved in the conference. Un-fortunately, the House-Senate conference wasunable to report out a bill. More on that in a fu-ture report.

The main purpose of a Congressional Fel-lowship is to learn the legislative process. Ilearned a great deal in my second year on theHill by staffing Senator Reid on the Senate en-ergy bill. The process of making legislation isnot for the naive or idealistic, and it’s not per-fect and precise like research endeavors strive tobe. It’s politics, people, process, and patience.Major energy legislation was only passed a fewtimes in the 20th century, and not in 2002.We’ll try again in the 108th Congress.

Peter Winokur, the NPSS Past President, canbe reached at the Office of Senator Harry Reid,528 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington,DC 20510; Phone: +1 202 224-3542; Fax +1202 224-7327; E-mail: [email protected].


No laughingmatter

If you don’t learnto laugh attrouble, youwon’t haveanything to laughat when yougrow old.

Ed Howe

Thoughtless

You are notthinking. You aremerely beinglogical.

Neils Bohr (toAlbert Einstein)

BILL WOULD USE R&D FUNDING TOPROMOTE METRIC CONVERSION

On Jan. 7, Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI)introduced legislation (H.R. 60) thatwould amend the Metric Conversion

Act of 1975 in order to require that persons re-ceiving federal funding for scientific or engi-neering research must identify the extent towhich the metric system of measurement orother systems of measurement will be used un-der the transaction and impose financial re-

sponsibility on the funding recipient for anyfailures to follow that measurement system.The bill was referred to the House ScienceCommittee for review.

See text of H.R. 60 at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.60:

From IEEE-USA Eye on Washington, January17, 2003

Editor's Comment. No comment!!

DOE PLAN CALLS FORFUSION-GENERATED ELECTRICITY

IN 35 YEARS

Meeting in Washington in late Novem-ber, the Department of Energy’s Fu-sion Energy Sciences Advisory

Committee (FESAC) gave its “unanimous un-qualified endorsement” to a preliminary planthat “can lead to the operation of a demonstra-tion fusion power plant in about 35 years andenable the commercialization of fusion power.”The panel noted that significant scientific andtechnological challenges remain to be over-come and that significant funding increaseswill be required to realize that goal. Citing en-vironmental and national security concerns,however, the report asserts that “a A commit-ment now to expend the additional resourcesto develop fusion energy within 35 years istimely and appropriate.” In a related report,DOE assessed the $5 billion cost estimate de-veloped for the International ThermonuclearEnergy Reactor (ITER) program, and con-cluded that it was “based on sound manage-ment and engineering principles, and is

credible as a basis for establishing relative con-tributions by the Parties to the construction ofITER.” All attention turns now to the WhiteHouse and its FY 2004 budget proposal (duefor release in late January) to see if funding isrequested to support U.S. participation in themulti-national ITER project.

See FESAC Plan for the Development ofFusion Energy at: http://fire.pppl.gov/fesac_devpath_prelim_rpt.pdf

See DOE Assessment of the ITER ProjectCost Estimate at: http://fire.pppl.gov/doe_iter_lehman.pdf

In related news, the National Academy ofEngineering’s Burning Plasma AssessmentCommittee released a letter report on Dec. 20recommending a U.S. return to the ITERprogram.

See Academy report at: http://books.nap.edu/html/BPAC/letter_report.pdf

From the IEE-USA Eye on Washington, De-cember 24, 2002.


Out of toyland

The electron - up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist- had clearly entered the field as a patent agent in the supplyingof man’s commercial and industrial needs.

Robert Millikan (on the 1915 achievement of New York to SanFrancisco phone calls)

NATIONAL ACADEMY HEADS QUESTIONVISA RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN

SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS

In a high-profile statement released on Dec.13, the heads of the National Academies ofScience and Engineering and the Institute

of Medicine called on the federal governmentto revise its current visa restrictions impedingentry of foreign scientists, engineers and qual-ified students. According to the Academyheads, “recent efforts by our government toconstrain the flow of international visitors inthe name of national security are having seri-ous unintended consequences for Americanscience, engineering and medicine.” To ensurethat national security is not compromised, the

statement called for development of new visascreening procedures, including such mecha-nisms as pre-security clearances for scientistsand engineers with proper credentials, cre-ation of a special new visa category for estab-lished researchers, and collaboration with theU.S. scientific and technical community toidentify foreign citizens properly engaged inresearch collaborations and/or to assist thegovernment in determining areas of particularsecurity concern.

From the IEEE-USA Eye on Washington, De-cember 24, 2002.

STRENGTHENING TIES BETWEENTHE MEDIA AND THE

ENGINEERING COMMUNITYFor each of the past three years, IEEE-USA

has sponsored an engineering student in theAmerican Association for the Advancement ofScience (AAAS) Mass Media Science and En-gineering Fellows Program. The program isdesigned to strengthen the connections amongscientists, engineers and journalists by placingadvanced science and engineering students innewsrooms across the country. The program,which will enter its 30th year next summer, hasplaced more than 400 fellows with news maga-zines, newspapers, TV networks and local or-ganizations.

The ProgramIEEE-USA Mass Media Fellows work for 10weeks in the summer as reporters, researchersand production assistants in mass media orga-nizations nationwide. Fellows collaborate withmedia professionals to enhance coverage of sci-ence- and engineering- related issues in the me-dia in order to improve public understandingand appreciation of science and technology.

Through the program, fellows observe andparticipate in the process by which events andideas become news; improve their communi-cation skills by learning to describe complextechnical subjects in a manner understandableto the lay public; and increase their under-standing of editorial decision making and theway in which information is effectively dissem-inated. Fellowship applicants must be U.S.members of the IEEE and must be enrolledcollege or university juniors or seniors or grad-uate or post-graduate students in the natural,physical, health, engineering or social sciences.IEEE-USA underwrites the expenses for theIEEE-USA fellow.

How to ApplyFor information on becoming an IEEE-USA MassMedia Fellow, contact AAAS at 202 326 6670 orIEEE-USA Communications Director Pender M.McCarter at 202 785 0017.


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War would end ifthe dead couldreturn.

S. Baldwin

Good deal!

We areoverpaying himbut he’s worth it.

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2003 Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

Administrative Committee

President Edward J. HoffmanVice President William W. Moses

Secretary Alberta M. Dawson LarsenTreasurer Edward J. Lampo

Most Recent Past President Peter S. WinokurDivision IV Director Harold L. Flescher

Elected Administrative Committee MembersTerms expiring 2003: Richard W. Callis (FT), Kenneth F. Gallo-way (RE), Osamu Ishihara (PSA), Edl Schamiloglu (PPST);Terms expiring 2004: Erik H.M. Heijne (Transnational), Tom K.Lewellen (NMIS), Mark Rader (PSA), Michael P. Unterweger(NID).Terms expiring 2005: Dennis B. Brown (RE), Mounir Laroussi(PSAC), Patrick LeDû (CANPS), William W. Moses (RI)Terms expiring 2006: Joseph Benedetto (RE), Grant Gullberg(NMIS), Glenn F. Knoll (RI); Patrick O'Shea (PAST)

Technical Committee ChairsComputer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Science(CANPS): Christian Boulin; Radiation Instrumentation (RI):Ronald M. Keyser; Fusion Technology (FT): Philip J.Heitzenroeder; Nuclear Instruments and Detectors (NID):Ronald M. Keyser; Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences(NMIS): Ronald J. Jaszczak; Particle Accelerator Science andTechnology (PAST): Bruce C. Brown; Plasma Science and Ap-plications (PSA): Thomas W. Hussey; Pulsed Power Science

and Technology (PPST): Robert E.Reinovsky; Radiation Ef-fects (RE): Dale Platteter.

Functional Committee ChairsAwards: Igor Alexeff; Chapter and Local Activities: Vernon G.Price; Communications: Peter N. Clout; Fellow Candidate Eval-uation: Osamu Ishihara; Finance: Harold Flescher; ConferencePolicy: Raymond S. Larsen; Membership: Vernon G. Price;Nominations: Peter S. Winokur; Publications: Paul V.Dressendorfer; Students & Careers: Edl Schamiloglu & Ken-neth A. Connor; Transnational: Erik H. M. Heijne.

PublicationsEditor-in-Chief: Paul V. Dressendorfer; Editor, IEEE Transac-tions on Nuclear Science: Paul V. Dressendorfer; Editor, IEEETransactions on Plasma Science: Steven J. Gitomer; Editor,IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging: Max A. Viergever;Conference Editors, Transactions on Nuclear Science: Ed-ward J. Hoffman, John Valentine; Editor, Newsletter: W. Ken-neth Dawson; Newsletter Editor Emeritus: John F. Osborn.

Liaison Representatives on other IEEE CommitteesCoalition for Plasma Science: Gerald L. Rogoff; DistinguishedLecturer Program: Vernon G. Price; Energy Policy: TBA; R&DPolicy: Peter S. Winokur; PACE: Julian Forster; RADECS Liai-son: Harold Flescher; Social Implications of Technology: Ray-mond S. Larsen; Standards: Julian Forster; TAB NewTechnology Directions: Edward J. Hoffman; TMI: A BertrandBrill and Ronald J. Jaszczak.

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